“Writing” chess posts

As with any other type of writing or blogging every author’s best wish is to focus on content and spend minimum time on formatting and other unrelated things. Publishing chess related content is especially tricky.

The tools that chess authors have are fairly limited, and those available make you spend more time on practicing your drawing skills, rather than describing what you have originally envisioned to inform your audience about. You can use video chess blogging as a mean to discuss chess games, however, video blogging is not for everyone, and traditional writing remains a more convenient way to express yourself.

On P4 we made it very easy to write chess. Whether you do it for taking your personal notes, writing a chess blog, creating a tutorial. By using standard chess notations you can describe any chess game, position or move on a chessboard as you type and publish it instantly.

P4 supports three different formats to describe a chess game. These are well known PGN and FEN standard notations as well as our own simplified format called chess. When you type the code of respective notation into your post, chess board diagrams will automatically appear.

Let’s open then game using FEN: