A simple site to make chessboard images
Generate images of chessboards with specific positions, share them around the web!
A simple site to make chessboard images launched on January 3, 2020 with 79 votes, #462 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
A simple site to make chessboard images A web tool for creating custom chessboard images. Users can generate visual chessboards in various styles and configurations for personal or professional use. The site is designed for anyone needing chessboard graphics, whether for chess enthusiasts, educators, or content creators. The straightforward interface focuses on quick image generation without unnecessary complexity.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
It's very simple, just click the pieces you want to add to the chessboard to select them, then click the square on the chessboard you want to add them to. There are buttons to quickly get the start position, empty the board, flip the board and paste in a FEN position that you want to see displayed. To highlight a move you can put it in the little textbox, just put in something like "d2d4" to highlight a move from d2 to d4. If the move is a straight or diagonal line the whole line will be highlighted, otherwise only the two squares will be. Every change you will make updates the url in the address bar, so you can always just copy that to get a link to this page showing that exact position.…from chessboardimage.com
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