New Engineering for the ChessBase News
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Replaying video games on a mobile cellular phone
The most practical enhancement of our information webpages is video game replay on cellular units. Right after a prolonged working day at work, not all people enjoys looking through information on a desktop pc. It is generally much more soothing to use your cell phone.
Replaying game titles on a cell telephone: Board dimension matters.
Use the “Hamburger” menu at the leading still left to adjust layouts. You can also have a format with a significant notation and an integrated motor.
Studying method – a new recreation structure
Try out out the new format for annotated video games. This time not as a screenshot but the genuine interactive thing. In this article is a puzzle: Can you obtain out how to get a board for a given move?
Certainly of training course, you just click on a go! Check out to resize the board – it can be big….
Interactive sharing of chess positions
My name is Matthias and I am a Twittoholic. Among the all the disturbing news and unfriendly disputes one particular reads on Twitter it is usually refreshing to see a gorgeous chess situation. Many persons share interesting positions. Having said that this is normally done as photograph. No person with a limited consideration span engages with these types of a image if additional analysis is required. So we launched a way to share positions for interactive analysis:
Click on on the obtain button and find “Share playable board”.
This will copy a hyperlink to a playable placement into your clipboard. This also functions on cellular devices. For superior measure, a textual content file made up of the link is downloaded on your laptop. Now you open Twitter and paste the link into your Tweet:
The connection seems elaborate, but is basically pretty sensible. We will occur to that.
The ensuing tweet is this. Twitter prefers a 2:1 image format in the preview…

A demo tweet for an article:https://t.co/e92V5Xf7ub
— Matthias Wüllenweber (@MWuellenweber) April 7, 2022
And now the great factor: Clicking on the image sales opportunities you to a gentle bodyweight diagram wherever you can analyse the position. You can try out it in the embedded tweet over.
You could also put up this connection on FaceBook or mail it by way of What’s Application:
Sending chess positions on What is Application or other messengers.
Have a search at the construction of this link: It is really really straightforward. It starts off with the deal with of the site “dia.chessbase.com”. Then you add a “parameter” to this url. Incorporating a parameter is finished by attaching a problem mark. Now follows the situation. Check out this easy illustration:
http://dia.chessbase.com?pos=wKe1,Ra2/bKe8
Although it is basic to read such a descriptive place, you can also use FEN strings:
http://dia.chessbase.com?pos=r4rk1/pppq1ppp/8/n2np1N1/1b6/2NP4/PPPBQPPP/R3K2R w KQ – 2
How to get those FEN strings? Nicely, on every single match replay on this web page, just click the obtain button explained previously mentioned and pick “Down load FEN”, which will duplicate it into the clipboard and also down load a little text file containing the string. You can also copy FEN in ChessBase or Fritz.
This is how you could construct and share one-way links to https://dia.chessbase.com with your personal positions. Absolutely nothing is saved in a database, there is no cloud and so forth included, the place is basically embedded in the url.
Difficult diagrams
Now about this frivolous new point in our diagrams:
All diagrams on ChessBase News are interactive. You can enter moves on them and do other great issues. With some hesitation do we position out a new perform. We have an understanding of that a person is intended to believe about positions. Even so there is now an engine button… Obtain and try it in the diagram over. Also you can open up a very little notation window to see the composition of your evaluation. And of course all the social sharing functions are there also.
Improved dwell broadcasts
Eventually some quick hints how to organize boards in the new reside broadcast format on en.chessbase.com and on live.chessbase.com. Most live broadcasts consist of many exciting online games which you will want to see simultaneously.
The initial critical point to know is an aged functionality:
Click on the improve button to get a substantial broadcast window that can accomodate numerous boards.
Now toggle amongst the regular split window or new swiped layout:
The swiped structure leaves much more area for the boards
Layouts are a make any difference of flavor: The new swiped structure demands a couple of clicks/cell swipes to improve concerning sights but is in common additional roomy.
Now you established the range of boards:
Click on on the setttings button on the suitable to configure your boards
The board range can selection concerning 1 and 24. You could also have several boards on a cell telephone. If your board region is squarish, a sq. range like 4, 9 or 16 yields pleasant views. Drag the vertical split bar in the center to modify the sizing of the board space.
Our standard layout emphasised the very first board. If you want this (at charge of the other board measurements) uncheck “Boards Exact same Size”.
The video games record of a reside broadcasts now incorporates the gamers flags if it is large sufficient. Drag the split bar to the remaining to boost its width. This is to immediately come across members of your state:
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Thank you for your notice to this new things and thank you for examining the ChessBase Information! Fall me a comment if you have possess views about the new functionality.