Tool to display / translate a Forsyth-Edwards notation (FEN) of a chess game. The line notation FEN allows to describe any position of a chess game.
Forsyth-Edwards Notation - dCode
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Forsyth-Edwards Notation
FEN Reader
Tool to display / translate a Forsyth-Edwards notation (FEN) of a chess game. The line notation FEN allows to describe any position of a chess game.
Answers to Questions
How does FEN notation work?
The FEN notation uses a single line to describe the contents of each box of the box in rows from top to bottom (seen from the white side). The characters describing the parts ar:
| K | White King | k | Black King |
| Q | White Queen | q | Black Queen |
| R | White Rook | r | Black Rook |
| B | White Bishop | b | Black Bishop |
| N | White Knight | n | Black Knight |
| P | White Pawn | p | Black Pawn |
| 1-8 | 1 to 8 empty boxes |
Example: The starting position of a chess board is: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR
The chessboard description is completed with 5 informations:
| w or b | Indicates the next player (w = white, b = black) |
| KQkq | Indicates possible castling. K and / or Q for black castle respectively coded King or Queen and likewise k and / or q for the white castle |
| - or coordinate | Coordinates of a possible case of taking en passant |
| 0 to 50 | Number of moves since last catch |
| 1 to 999 | Move number |
What does FEN stand for?
FEN is the acronym for Forsyth-Edwards Notation, named after David Forsyth, a Scottish journalist who invented this notation and Steven Edwards who adapted it to make it unambiguous and compatible with computers.
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