var-board

var-board is a JavaScript chessboard component that allows boards of variable dimensions. It is based on chessboard.js and depends on jQuery v3.4.1 (or higher).

Please see chessboardjs.com for documentation and examples.

What is var-board?

var-board is a standalone JavaScript Chess Board. It is designed to be "just a board" and expose a powerful API so that it can be used in different ways. Here's a non-exhaustive list of things you can do with var-board:

• Use var-board to show game positions alongside your expert commentary.
• Use var-board to have a tactics website where users have to guess the best move.
• Integrate var-board and chess.js with a PGN database and allow people to search and playback games (see Example 5000)
• Build a chess server and have users play their games out using the var-board board.

var-board is flexible enough to handle any of these situations with relative ease.

What can var-board not do?

The scope of var-board is limited to "just a board." This is intentional and makes var-board flexible for building a variety of chess-related applications.

To be specific, var-board does not understand anything about how the game of chess is played: how a knight moves, whose turn is it, is White in check?, etc.

Fortunately, the chess.js library deals with exactly this sort of problem and plays nicely with var-board's flexible API. Some examples of var-board combined with chess.js: Example 5000, Example 5001, Example 5002

Docs and Examples

• Docs - https://chessboardjs.com/docs

• Examples - https://chessboardjs.com/examples

• Custom dimensions example:

var config = {
  rows: '6',
  columns: '16'
}
var board = Chessboard('myBoard', config)

Developer Tools

# create a build in the build/ directory
npm run build

# re-build the website
npm run website

License

MIT License