Hmmm..... ok summary of ideas so far, and one more of my own. 1) As you mention, you could do the positions using just ascii characters. (a little tedious to do, but perhaps the most portable.) 2) Similar to above, only using high-unicode codepoints for chess pieces. Good point: standards compliant. Drawback: at present, not very many people could view it correctly. 3) You could extract images of each board position from page scans, and create an html file. 4) Using your own software, or what-have-you, you could create new images showing the same positions. (Probably result in cleaner images this way.) 5) Jon Noring mentioned using SVG, which I wouldn't have thought of. Investigate at your pleasure. 6) I'm sure I've seen somewhere in PG some use of PGN for recording chess games. It might be of use in this case. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation Andrew On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 rnmscott@netspace.net.au wrote:
Interesting idea. I had never even thought of chess works, despite having actually read this, way back when, I think.
How would you do it, with images? Some of them could be pretty big, with lots of board positions. Re-doing them as ascii boards like on old chess servers wouldn't be too much fun, but possible?
Richard