Software for Chess Blogs

While blog tripping in October, which is not posted on About Chess yet, I found a few tools of special interest to the chess blog community. The first was a game viewer...

Game Viewer Test
http://closetgrandmaster.blogspot.com/2006/10/game-viewer-test.html

...based on Chess Publisher. I fed it the first game I completed when I returned to play at the ICCF a few years ago...

[Event "EM/J50/P198"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Weeks, Mark"]
[Black "Rodrigues, Ademar"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Ne4 Be7 9.c4 Nc7 10.Nd6+ Bxd6 11.Qxd6 Na6 12.b4 Qe7 13.a3 Qxd6 14.exd6 O-O 15.Be2 Nb8 16.O-O a5 17.b5 a4 18.Bb2 Na6 19.bxa6 c5 20.Rab1 Rxa6 21.Rfd1 Bb7 22.Bc1 Ba8 23.Be3 Be4 24.Bd3 Bxd3 25.Rxd3 Ra5 26.Rb7 Rd8 27.Rd1 g6 28.Bg5 f5 29.Bxd8 1-0

...and it came out looking like this...

...Note that the source is stored on the Maribelajar.com domain, aka Chess Patzer Theories, which could be problematic. The domain was down for the entire time that I was researching the October tripping article.

I found another useful trick in...

Add diagrams to your chess blog the easy way
http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2006/10/22/45

...The following diagram is from the example given on that page...

Looks good.