Wellgames presents a unique browser based game Chess!

This chess can be played on Twitter, in any instant messengers, chats, Facebook, MySpace and other social networks!

We give you an opportunity to play against one opponent or many people at once with no need to be bound to a specific program or site!

All you need in order to play is to paste the link of the game with your first move into the message and send it to your friend.
Let's assume that your first move is:
http://wellgames.com/chess/e4
where e4 is the coordinate of your pawn's movefrom the rank e. More detailed explanation of pieces and moves identification is given below. So, do not worry, it is not as difficult as it seems.

To make a response, your opponent will need to modify the link and send it back to you. By clicking the link you will see the chess board with the current game progress.
Suppose, your opponent responses like this:
http://wellgames.com/chess/e4e6
Just click to visualize the board.

Moves Identification

First of all learn how pieces should be marked


	K - king
	Q - queen
	B - bishop
	N - knight
	R - rook
	P - pawn

Writing Moves:

As mentioned above, to make a move, simply add the move coordinates to the current link in your browser right after "wellgames.com/chess/" and press Enter.
You will get an image with your current game situation and pieces location.

To identify moves in the link, you can use both standard algebraic notation (SAN) and algebraic notation (AN). The default notation is SAN. To use AN you should put a dot before the move.

Notations are not case sensitive, but it's recommended to mark Bishop in upper case as "B", because if written in lower case, it can be interpreted as a pawn in file "b".

Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN)

When using SAN you should only identify the square you move to and piece you move. An example of SAN: wellgames.com/chess/e4Nh6Bxh6. These are 3 moves:

e4 - pawn moves to e4
Nh6 - knight moves to h6
Bxh6 - bishop captures the knight in h6

The key features of SAN are:

Non-capturing moves generally involve only the piece type and the destination square, where pawns are generally not listed;
e.g.: pawn - d4, knight - Nf3, queen - Qd6.
When more than one piece can be placed in the destination square, you should indicate the file or rank of the piece to be moved,
e.g., Nce2, R2f1.
Captures are indicated by putting an "x" between the piece type and the destination square; for pawns, the file of the capturing piece is used;
e.g., pawn - fxg6, queen - Qxa5.
Missing files for pawns, e.g. xg6 is possible, but not recommended.
On this server "x" can be omitted to make the URL shorter. For pawns you can use the destination square location, but without starting file. E.g., b5 or axb5, but not ab5.
King-side castle is indicated with O-O, queen-side with O-O-O.
A "=" followed by a piece name means pawn promotion, e.g. d8=R means that white pawn moves to square d8 and becomes a rook.

Algebraic notation

If using AN you will need to identify the move by the original and destination squares coordinates. Dots are used to indicate algebraic nocation:
http://wellgames.com/chess/.d2d4.g8h6.c1h6

Note: A dot should be placed before the first move as well.
There is no need to specify the piece type.
All moves in the game log are written according to SAN.

You can also combine different notations and you will get the same result.

For example:
http://wellgames.com/chess/d4Nh6.c1h6

Move separator

Sign "_" can be used as a separator between moves to make a URL more readable.
e.g. wellgames.com/chess/d4_Nh6_Bxh6. However, separator is not required.

Using Twitter

If you want to use Twitter for link exchange, you will face the limit of 140 characters per twit. We recommend you to register at bit.ly. This service is an URL shortener, but you can immediately add some description and post a twit with short URL.

Short help

Forgot something while playing? You can read short tips at wellgames.com/chess/help at any moment.

Challenge your friends

You can create a chess puzzle and share it with your friends. The link will be wellgames.com/chess/start/[your_puzzle]/[description]/. Server understands simplified Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN). It uses only two first blocks:

Piece placement (from White's perspective). Each rank is described, starting with rank 8 and ending with rank 1; within each rank, the content of each square is described from file a to file h. Following the Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN), each piece is identified by a single letter taken from the standard English names (pawn = "P", knight = "N", bishop = "B", rook = "R", queen = "Q" and king = "K"). White pieces are designated using upper case letters ("PNBRQK") while Black take lower case ("pnbrqk"). Blank squares are noted using digits 1 through 8 (the number of blank squares), and "/" separate ranks.
Active color. "w" means white moves next, "b" means black.

Note that the separator between piece placement and active color is also "/", not space

You can also use short FEN notation. It's used on many chess forums, so it may be familiar to you.
It has the following syntaxys:

First letter specifies active color. 'b' - black, 'w' - white. White will be used as default
Then you put a white label 'w:' and specify all white pieces. Each piece is identified by a single letter (pawn = "P", knight = "N", bishop = "B", rook = "R", queen = "Q" and king = "K") and it's algebraic notation
To specify black pieces put the '/b:' label and do the same, as with white pieces.

After you have defined the initial position of the pieces, you can specify a short text description. Trailing slash is required to separate this description from moves.
Remember, that FEN notation is case sensitive.

Here is an example of Rick's etude:
Using FEN: wellgames.com/chess/start/5N2/p5p1/k7/P3pP2/2K3pP/6P1/4n3/8/w/Rick's etude: White wins/
Using short notation: wellgames.com/chess/start/wW:Kc4,Nf8,a5,f5,g3,h4/B:Ka6,Ne2,a7,e5,g4,g7/Rick's etude: White wins/