chessbored

a chess board with movable pieces that behaves like a chessboard on the table. useful for solo tinkering, setting up puzzles, and analyzing positions. FEN notation is generated for positions on the board and can be copied with a mouse click and pasted into engines for further analysis.

grey and white chess board, grey and white pieces each in their starting positions and a selection menu of each piece along the right edge of the board. below the board are white letters on a black background describing the positions on the board in FEN notation along with a note that you can click to copy the FEN description.

controls

left mouse click: pickup / place a piece
x: remove a selected piece
c: clear the board
i: all pieces in "initial" / starting positions

try it out

https://chessbored.shnewto.space

installing

bash cargo install chessbored

running locally

bash cargo run