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Ideas how to improve chess svg player.

• info text improvment
• JavaScript shrink
• play previous move button. Hint: Play game from start to current move minus one ?
• rotate the board so we can see the position from black site. Hint: The board needs to be rotated in the middle and so the pieces.
• older notations ? (P-K4) this is much more difficult then previous steps
• cross browser javascript, tested now only with Internet Explorer. Cross browser SVG. Hint: see SVG in HTML
• download games from database (pgn)

Souce code for chess notation player.

I wrote the code engine for chess notation player in Java and then I translated it to Javascript. Its free for everybody, I would appreciate if you mention where you get the source from, I would even more appreciate improvements of this code. If you have any ideas for improvement of HTML, JavaScript or SVG code, please, let me know: draw4free@gmail.com. How to work with jars see here, the Java source was created with NetBeans 5.5, for conversion to javascript was used Eclipse with Adobe JsEclipse and later NetBeans 6.0

chessNotationPlayerSource javaScript file translated from Java files. To see this code in action click here.
chessNotationPlayerSource java files (below in table) packed in the jar file