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chrisoakman on July 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: ChessBoardJS

This is a great write-up and is exactly the reason that ChessBoard is "just a board".

Proper PGN parsing and legal move validation is a complex and independent problem that nicely fits into it's own library and should be separate from any display logic.

For example: https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js

thingsilearned on July 27, 2013 [–]

I created this board a while ago that is connected to that chess.js

http://thingsilearned.com/projects/chess/

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