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This could be probably in faq, but its strongly related to chess drawing, so it belongs here.

Questions to drawing.

As this was the first real picture, I learned that grid snapping is necessary to build in. Also the manipulation with layers and shapes needs to be improved. E.g. the curve drawing needs to be improved so, that a sharp point can be made by origin drawing. And selected point should change color by mouse hovering above. There was small bug in saved svg. Orientation of arc. Hope to correct it in next releases.

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Here are some ideas how the player can be improved. Or has to be.

• 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.
• knight Kn should be N, or both.
• instead of full notation (e2 - e4) shorter notation (e4)
• 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 (eg. PGN)
• internationalization. Hint: in html pictures of pieces with textboxes, where you can put not english name of piece (eg. S, L, T, D, K for German). Hint 2: Its already done in Javascript engine, requires only html change.

The Javascript is available and so is the Java code used as a source (here). The Java code was fun to write and then I translated it to Javascript. I also tried Java2Script, but the resulting script was too big. So if you have any improvement in HTML, JavaScript or SVG code, please, let me know: draw4free@gmail.com.