Click this button to create a diagram:
In the popup window, select the diagram radio button, click Continue, select Use a FEN string, paste the FEN string into the box, click Continue, click Insert.
Here is the 2nd one:
How to create FEN's?
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I didn't ask how to use FEN I already how to do that I'm asking how to create one by hand
koala8 wrote:
I didn't ask how to use FEN I already how to do that I'm asking how to create one by hand
Let's break one down. FENs start from a8 and separate the ranks by slashes. Lowercase letters are black pieces and uppercase are white. Numbers represent consecutive blank squares.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
Start with 6 blank squares, then add a bB and bR.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
On the 7th rank, add 7 blank squares and a pawn.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
Two blanks, bP, 1 blank, bK, 1 blank, bP, wP on 6th rank.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
etc.
Add the other pertinent information at the end.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
White to play.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
First dash means that no one has castling rights. KQ would mean white can castle on either side. KQkq means that both sides can castle on either side.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
Second dash means there is no en passant field. If black's last move was ...b7-b5, this field would be b6, indicating that Pc5 can capture en passant.
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
0 half-moves without a pawn move or capture [for the 50-move rule].
6br/7p/2p1k1pP/rpPp1pP1/pP1PpP2/P1K1P3/8/8 w - - 0 1
The move number is 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notation If you want to create FEN automatically from a diagram, see
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/program-to-convert-chess-diagram-to-fen
Thanks bigdogg I'll look into that more later, shadow that is not the fen I was talking about, and fredm I've seen the first link, it was too brief and I'm not looking to do it automatically thanks anyways
FEN "r1bqkb1r/pppp1ppp/2n2n2/2b1p3/4P3/2NP1N2/PPP2PPP/R1BQKB1R w KQkq - 0 1"
qqqkqqqq/qqqqqqqq/PPPPPPPP/BBBBBBBB/RRRRRRRB/RNNNNNRB/RNQQQNRB/RNQKQNRB w - - 0 1
cool
I'd like to know more on how to create FEN's, they are very interesting and can help me in a lot of ways I have found out the basics of it but I need someone else to fill out the rest of the puzzle pieces. Here are some basic ones rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1, rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1, rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/8/2p5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq - 1 2. I already know that rnbqkbnr are the pieces that are not the pawns and pppppppp are the pawns in their order. Whites part of this is capitalized and black is vice-versa. w means whites turn and b means blacks turn. KQkq is ability to castle for both sides. A 1 replaces pieces that have moved. But the 8/8/8/8 and how it changes accordingly is difficult to me along with the "-" and the "0 1" or whatever the numbers happen to be in that case confuses me.