load a game
Paste PGN text, or drop a .pgn file below. Comments, variations and multi-game files are fine.
Drop a .pgn file here, or click to choose one
start
publish this game
No game loaded.Load a PGN on the board tab first.
Comma separated. Used to filter the library.
Publishing writes the game to the repo behind this site. Anyone with the link can read it, and it stays until you remove it.
Published.
what this is
A viewer and permalink service for chess games. Games are replayed move by move from the notation itself, so illegal or garbled moves get caught rather than drawn wrong. Nothing leaves your browser until you press publish.
- Keyboard
- ← → step · Home End jump · Space play/pause · F flip
- The strip under the board
- One tick per half-move: White above the line, Black below. Taller ticks are captures, red ticks are checks. Click or drag it to scrub.
- Link format
- A published game lives at
?g=<id>— open that URL and it loads straight into the board.
backend
The Worker holds the GitHub token and writes games to the repo. Stored in this browser only.
Without a Worker the board, the viewer and device-local saving all still work — only publishing and the shared library need it.