A FEN string contains six fields or sections. The separator between fields is a space. The fields are:

• 1) Piece placement (from white’s perspective):
Each rank of the chessboard is described, starting with rank 8 and ending with rank 1; within each rank, the contents of each square are described from the a-file to the h-file.
Following the Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN), each piece is identified by a single letter taken from the standard English names (pawn = “P”, knight = “N”, bishop = “B”, rook = “R”, queen = “Q” and king = “K”).
White pieces are designated using upper-case letters (“PNBRQK”)
Black pieces use lowercase (“pnbrqk”).
Empty squares are noted using digits 1 through 8 (the number of empty squares), and “/” separates ranks.
• 2) Active colour:
“w” means its White’s turn to move.
“b” means its Black’s turn to move.
• 3) Castling availability: If neither side can castle, this is “-“. Otherwise, this has one or more letters: “K” (White can castle kingside), “Q” (White can castle queenside), “k” (Black can castle kingside), and/or “q” (Black can castle queenside).
• 4) En-passant info: If an en-passant capture can be made, this shows the square that the capturing pawn will end up on. If no en passant move can be made then this field is just “-“. This field is active regardless of whether or not there is a pawn in a position to make an en passant capture.
• 5) Halfmove clock: This is the 50-move rule counter. It starts at ‘0‘. As soon as a move is played that is NEITHER a pawn move NOR a capture, this counter starts counting. If a pawn move and/or capture is subsequently played, the counter resets to ‘0‘.
• 6) Fullmove counter: This counts the number of complete moves played. At the start of a game, it is set to 1, where it is waiting for move 1 to be played. White makes a move and, as soon as black replies, it increments to 2, showing that move 1 has been completed and  it is now waiting for move 2 to be played.

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Schaakzone is een informatieve site over schaken die interessant is voor schakers van ieder niveau. Het is dus een nuttige site als je wil leren schaken, want in de sectie Schaken voor beginners vind je een complete uitleg van de spelregels en nog veel meer tips en informatie om de basis van het spel te leren.

De overige secties van Schaakzone zijn gericht op de schakers die vooral sterker willen worden. Door het bestuderen van tactiek, strategie, openingen en eindspel, en daarbij na te denken over puzzeltjes of hoe je je stelling kan verbeteren

Er zijn veel websites over schaken die zich op schaaknieuws, toernooien en grootmeesters concentreren. Met deze site concentreer ik me op het spel: schaken!chess

Shane's Chess Information Database is a powerful Chess Toolkit, with which one can create huge databases, run chess engines, and play casual games against the computer or online with the Free Internet Chess Server. It was originally written by Shane Hudson , and has received strong contribution from Pascal Georges and others.

Scid vs. PC began with bug-fixes for the computer-versus-player features of Scid (hence the name), but has evolved into a solid alternative with many new features and interfaces. The project is authored by Stevenaaus and numerous contributors (thanks).chess pc games

Play the classic, ad free games you loved from Windows 7 (along with Mahjong Titans, Chess Titans and Purble Place from Windows Vista) on computers running Windows 8 and Windows 10. Winaero (who has quite a nice collection of useful free Windows utilities and programs, check them out) has packaged these great games into one downloadable file that will run on Windows 8 and 10. Complete directions are on the page - download and extract the Zip file to install the program, then choose any or all of these games:

Games:

• Chess
• FreeCell
• Hearts
• Mahjong
• Minesweeper
• Purble Place
• Solitaire
• Spider Solitaire

Internet Games:

• Internet Backgammon
• Internet Checkers
• Internet Spades

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Play chess against your computer using Mayura Chess Board. Attractive graphics combined with a powerful chess engine makes Mayura Chess Board one of the best programs for playing chess on Windows PCs. Beginner, intermediate and expert levels of play are supported. Beginners will find plenty of assistance: Mayura Chess Board can optionally highlight squares to which a piece can be moved, and highlight undefended and attacked pieces. Expert players will be challenged by the included powerful chess engine. Players at all levels will appreciate features such as animated piece movement, arrow to indicate last computer move, unlimited undo/redo, and other ease-of-use enhancements. chess

NagaSkaki is a free, fully functional chess program for Windows 98, NT, XP and Vista. It is available for download and you are encouraged to distribute it to as many people as you want (as long as it's free!)chess

These videos explore various chess openings and the book lines associated with them.

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You can choose amongst following problem sets:

• 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate, by Fred Reinfeld.
• 1001 Winning Sacrifices and Combinations, by Fred Reinfeld.
• Win at Chess, 300 more problems by Fred Reinfeld.

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This page lists all the Chess software available in the net. For downloading these software you will need the p2p program, eDonkey. Get it from here. Also try Overnet (Download here). Another gr8 client for the eDonkey network is eMule.

This page will be updated as soon as I find a new release in the network. Subscribe to this mailing list if you&39;d like to get notified of new releases or to discuss any of these chess software.chess