SimpleChessBoard

Simple chess FEN/PGN viewer with evaluation

What is SimpleChessBoard?

SimpleChessBoard is a highly interactive and user-friendly Chrome extension for chess enthusiasts. It allows importation and analysis of chess games using FEN or PGN, and includes an integrated Stockfish engine for evaluating legal moves. In addition, users have the capability to play against an AI and share encoded links of their games with friends. The tool also supports a manual set-up mode, legal move generation, checkmate/stalemate detection, and an evaluation graph for analyzing blunders or mistakes.

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By: hxim.jo

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Users: 3,000+

Rating: 3.89 (9)

Version: 1.6 (Last updated: 2018-09-01)

Creation date: 2018-09-01

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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Size: 642.05K

Email: hx*****@gmail.com

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 17784 ▼ 210

Other rankings

#594 in Just for Fun ▲ 4

#23 in variation keyword 9 ▼ 1

#34 in position keyword 25

#38 in legal keyword 5 ▼ 1

#119 in board keyword 24 ▼ 4

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Summary

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SimpleChessBoard is simple chess position and game analysis tool available as browser extension and as a web page at https://hxim.github.io/simplechessboard/popup/simplechessboard.html.

Features:

Load your chess position or game using FEN or PGN.
Setup pieces manually with your mouse in edit mode.
You can browse game history and try out different variations. Arrow is showing last move and move recomennded by engine.
List all legal moves and show them on chessboard
Checkmate or stalemate is detected
Analyze position and all legal moves with javascript version of Stockfish from https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.js
Show evaluation graph and visalize mistakes or blunders with different colors
Open position or game in new window via URL. You can also share this URL with friends (in online version) and your position or entire game will be encoded in the link.
You can also play chess against computer

Copy your FEN or PGN to clipboard and paste it in the input box at the top. You can also manually