Welcome to the jschess web site

jschess is a pure JavaScript library that enables:

Showing chess games in PGN format (hardcoded or coming from a server)
Showing chess positions in FEN format (hardcoded or coming from a server)
Writing a web app that shows chess riddles and their solutions
Writing a web app that enables the end user to create chess positions and save them (in FEN or other format)
Allows to build a chess game where the player plays a server or some other player
Allows to build live broadcast systems for competitions
Other things I did not think about

What makes jschess special:

Pure object oriented javascript
No images - totally scalable graphics
You can have your board at any size you want (because of scalable graphics)
As a result of being pure javascript totally controllable programatically
Looks best (can animate the pieces, show arrows and what not)
Free source. Full freedom to tweak or you can ask me for help with implementing a feature
Sits on top of raphaeljs for high level SVG capabilities
Sits on top of prototypejs to make object oriented easier and more error free
Sits on top of chess.js to do game parsing and validation

Technologies used to develop jschess...

The current version of jschess is 0.0.1

This is alpha material at the moment, use at your own risk! API is subject to change!

Some links:

Demos of jschess...

Misc pages that help develop jschess and possibly other things...

Here is a quick demo (go ahead and zoom it with Ctrl+[+/-] to see what SVG is all about...):