NEW: online Draughts Diagram Maker released

[ArthurK]

Make your draughts articles attractive by using inspiring diagrams.

Today I released a web page that makes it easy to create online nice looking diagrams.
Completely free to use without ads.
Create your own theme and make an image of it that you can include in your documentation.

Features.

• User-friendly design, easy to use web page, WYSIWYG.
• More than 2000 themes.
• Position input with a FEN string or by clicking on the squares of the board.
• Comment lines above and below the board as possible.
• Various sizes of the board.
• Help is available.
• Works well for most modern browsers: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9+
• Bi-lingual: dutch (default) and english.

I hope you like the diagram maker. You can find the page here.
Have fun with it.

To get an impression of what is possible, look at my composition from 1999.

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The best wishes for 2015!

Arthur
Groningen, The Netherlands

[ArthurK]

I released a new version of my Draughts Diagram Maker.

With the new version, you can also create diagrams for the game of checkers on the 8x8 board.
Furthermore, the performance has been improved and the layout has been subject to some minor changes.

I hope you appreciate the new version.

Arthur Kalverboer

[Maurits Meijer]

Very nice. Plenty of themes. It is kind of hard to find a specific theme.
There is a small bug: Pressing enter in the fen box reloads the page. I believe this is due to the single input element in the form.

[ArthurK]

Thanks Maurits you appreciate the diagram maker.

I have solved the bug by making an invisible dummy input element to prevent implicit submission when pressing enter (which causes a reload of the page).

I have chosen to keep the diagram maker as simple as possible. As a result, a theme is not immediately visible in advance.
When you hover over the radio buttons with the mouse cursor, a code for the applied function is displayed. If you remember this code you can find a specific theme another time.

[ArthurK]

Again I released a new version of the Draughts Diagram Maker.

I was not satisfied with the way a new theme can be chosen. So I decided to make a new layout where the themes are visually recognizable. Hopefully, this makes finding a particular theme easier (perceived as a problem by Maurits).

Arthur Kalverboer

[ArthurK]

I have updated the online Draughts Diagram Maker for 10x10 and 8x8 boards. The diagram maker allows you to compose the layout of a board with pieces and make an image of the board.

The color scheme is reorganized.
With four rows of ten color themes, you can choose from 400 (!) color themes. How is this possible?

If you choose a color theme from the first two rows, then themes of the last two rows automatically adjusts to the selected theme. This creates a great variety of selectable color themes.
An example of the box with selectable color themes:

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As usual you can find the improved version of the diagram maker < here >.

An example I have composed of a checkers board with 64 squares:

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Have fun with making diagrams.

Arthur Kalverboer

[ArthurK]

Update Draughts Diagram Maker.

I extended the color themes for the diagram maker with another row. It gives more opportunities to choose your favourite colors for the board image.
Remember: available colors of the last three rows are dependent on the choice you made in the first two rows. This gives you roughly 600 color themes to choose from.

Next I released an online chess diagram maker.
Looks the same as the draughts diagram maker with equal functionality. Customized standard FEN string to specify a chess position. You can choose from 23 sets of chess piece icons. In the future new sets of piece icons will be added.
Should work well for recent versions of modern browsers.
For draughts players who are also interested in the game of chess.

Have fun.

Arthur Kalverboer