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Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Oct 9, 2022 04:57 PM UTC:

Very nice!  This has come a long way.  One small glitch I noticed is that if you click to move a piece and then right-click to reset, the banner still says "position after (half)move 0" rather than returning to its original state.

Sorry I didn't respond sooner to the question about why I don't use the interactive diagram as the main diagram.  I think it was primarily because I wanted complete control over how the board looked.  Now it has lots of options to set colors, etc., but if I remember correctly, it didn't originally let you set squares colors.  Now you can pick piece graphics, set square colors, and set border color.  I think that mostly addresses the concerns.  I can only think of two outstanding concerns (one is probably very easy to address, the other is probably not.)

First, I am assuming you cannot change the rank/file notations.  This is generally unimportant, but there are exceptions.  For example, in Brouhaha, the files have different names so that the main portion of the board still has the usual files a through h.

Second, to the right of the board, I was listing the pieces and locations using the long-standing format of the Chess Variant Pages.  I then started adding the array FEN (perhaps not useful to some, but very useful to others as the most compact descripton of all the pieces, their starting locations and notations.)  If it was possible to add text below the piece list for the optional specification of array FEN, or whatever the author wanted to write there, I think that would be sufficient.


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