What's New?

A new version of the excellent diagrams program, ChessDiagrammer, is now available.

Two new freeware programs have been added to the Chess Diagrams page. ChessDiagrammer is an excellent program for making static diagrams for printing or the web. Pgn Reader is a new, fast and nifty Java applet for displaying games on a web page.
On the page Chess Programs & Utilities a new free chess database, ChessDB, has been added. It is based on the Scid database program, but has several enhancements. Finally I have added a link to a free service, where you can convert Yahoo games to pgn online.

Peter Strickland has modified the Chess Alpha font and optimised it for figurine notation. See the page chess fonts. Ulrike Fischer has converted most of the fonts on this site to Latex format. Link at Chess Fonts.

Tom McCormick has made a new version of his pgn utilities with even more possibilities. See Chess Programs & Utilities
On the page Chess Diagrams is a link to a new freeware program, ChessTheatre, that can be used for viewing and publishing pgn files.
Peter Wong from Australia has created 70 new chess icons that can be downloaded from the page Chess Graphics

A new free club rating utility program, ELO Rater, has been aded to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities.

At Chess Diagrams there is a new link to a page, ChessUp, where you can make chess diagrams online.

There's a new and improved verion of A.Chatterjee's freeware program for making diagrams, see the Chess Diagrams page.

A new freeware diagram utility by A.Chatterjee has been added to the Chess Diagrams page.

There is a new version of the diagram utility, ChessGrafix, on the page Chess Diagrams. Set up a diagram and save as a bitmap, JPG or copy to the clipboard.
You can download a new version of Tom McCormick's very useful pgn utilities from the page with Chess Programs and Utilities.

A new free diagram utility, ChessGrafix, has been added to the page Chess Diagrams. Set up a diagram and save as a bitmap or copy to the clipboard.
On Chess Programs And Utilities is a new freeware program for tournament coverage, SP2HTML. If you use SwissPerfect the program can automatically generate webpages with pairings, standings, cross tables etc.

Tom McCormick has released a new and improved version of his pgn utilities that are so useful for "cleaning" pgn files. See Chess Programs And Utilities.

A new online chess diagram generator, Wiseboard, has been added to the Diagrams page.
The Palview Links Page has been updated.

A new freeware utility, Chess2pgn, has been added to the page with Programs & Utilities. The program converts Yahoo Chess Game Notation to PGN.
The Palview Links Page has been updated.

The pages with Programs & Utilities and Chess Diagrams have been updated. There's a new version of Tom McCormick's excellent PGN utilities, a new link to the graphical user interface, Arena, and an ingenious new program by Alain Blaisot, DiagTransfer, for making diagrams.

A new freeware program, EGChessPro, for solving studies and problems has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities

Test and sharpen your tactical ability! Now hundreds of combinations and endgame studies can be seen/solved online at our new set of pages Find The Move!. The pages use Palview's new quiz features, which allow you to make moves on a chess board. If you haven't found the right move after 3 guesses the solution is revealed. Have fun!

The link on the Palview download page to the new version of PalMate had not been changed correctly, so instead of version 2 you got the old version 1 that doesn't support Palview 4. This has been fixed now and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Good news for chess webmasters - Palview version 4 has been released! We also release a new version of the graphical interface, PalMate, that supports the new features in Palview 4. The program for live broadcast, Palive, has been updated to support Palview 4, but is essentially the same program.
See The Palview Pages for more information and downloads.

A new freeware program for Linux, FEN2PPM, for making diagrams has been added to the page with Chess Diagrams.

A new freeware program, Schachdiagramm-Editor, for making diagrams has been added to the page with Chess Diagrams.

3 new freeware programs have been added. On the page with Chess Diagrams is a new program, pgn2html, that makes HTML/Java Script for viewing games on a webpage. Beware: there are NOW 2 programs named "pgn2html" on the diagrams page!
On the page with Chess Programs and Utilities two new programs have been added. A fully grown chess database program, Jose, and a utility, Chess Game Notation File Converter, for language conversion of notation in pgn files.

The editor of these pages, Eric Bentzen, has got a new email address:
Thanks to the pest of our time, SPAM, the addresses "eric" and "norresundby" @enpassant.dk are now history.

A new freeware utility, PGNres, by Peter McKenzie has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities. PGNres reads pgn files and produces summary reports, crosstables and more.

Peter Wong from Australia has designed some additional chess icons and four animated chess cursors. You can download the updated file from the page with Chess Graphics or directly by clicking here.

Two PGN utilities by Tom McCormick have been updated. The PgnTrim-program now handles chess-clock "comments" inserted by software from DGT that monitors electronic boards and clocks. Go to the page Chess Programs & Utilities.

Two new free PGN utilities by Tom McCormick have been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities. One for removing duplicates and one for removing games not played by the world's all-time best players.

A new freeware program, FEN2eps, has been added to the page Chess Diagrams. FEN2eps supports 19 different chess fonts and makes chess diagrams as EPS (Encapsulated Postscript Files).

Two new freeware programs, Pgn2ltx and ChessOle!, have been added to the page Chess Diagrams. Pgn2ltx converts PGN to a LaTeX input file for figurine notation and Informator symbols. ChessOle is a Windows program for making diagrams with true type fonts. The Chess Fonts page has been updated with the ChessOle font.

A new freeware program, VEGA, for swiss tournament management has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities

The En Passant site has been moved to another server - we needed more space. Consequently The Palview Developers Forum has been down for a few days. The forum is now back, but at another adress - please update your bookmarks: http://www.enpassant.dk/msgboard/index.html. You can still read the old messages at http://www.enpassant.dk/board/board.htm, however you cannot post new messages or replies to the old message board.

A new freeware program, FullChess, has been added to the page with diagram utilities. Generates HTML or exports the diagram as an image (bitmap or PNG). Also Fischer Random.

I the near future these pages will be moved physically to another server (same provider). This can (and probably will) cause some temporary problems - maybe also with mail to *@enpassant.dk. Sorry for any inconvenience, but we need more space!

A minor update to Palview has been uploaded. See The Palview Pages. A new Palview page has been added, Palview Links, with links to sites using Palview. See how others use it!

A new font, Chess Diagramm Pirat, has been added to the chess fonts page.

There's a new version of Uwe Auerswald's program, PGNtoJS, that converts a PGN-file to HTML/JavaScript. The program is now freeware and there are several improvements. For instance PGNtoJS now supports DGT boards for live game transmission.

A freeware program, MateMaster, for solving conventional mate problems has been added to Chess Programs & Utilities.

Two new free pgn utilities, "PGN2ECO" and "PGNtrim" by Tom McCormick, have been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities.

A new tournament mangement program, Sevilla, has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities. Sevilla supports Swizz, Round Robin and more.

Robert Ericsson has announced on The Palview Developers Forum that the Swedish Championship in Skara (29.6-14.7) will use Palive for broadcasting the games from the GM group live every day this summer. They will use the same hardware and software that were used in the Swedish Ch in Linkoping 2001, i.e. they will use Palive + Palview in connection with DGT boards.

New chairman of Nørresundby Skakklub: Arne Hove.

At the Indian National Rapid (30 min.) in Bangalore May 27-31 the top game will be transmitted live using Palive and Palview. Things will start Monday evening. Visweswaran says he'll use a DGT board, a portable PC and a dialup connection. At the moment we have no direct link, but I presume it will be available at Chathurangam.

A new shareware program, Explorer, for solving chess problems has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities.

The Palview Developers Forum is up again.
Sorry for any inconveniance, Eric.

Due to a server change this site has been down for a few days. Of course the change should have happened unnoticed, but never underestimate Murphy's Law! Everything should be back up and running now except the Palview Developers Forum. You can read old messages, but cannot post new ones. We're working on it.
Sorry for any inconveniance, Eric.

A new freeware program, Chess Task, has been added to the page with Chess Diagrams. Chess Task makes collections of diagrams with text, ideal for e.g. chess problems. Creates Html or "ordinary" pages for print.

A few bugs have been corrected in PalMate - the Palview interface. If you have installed PalMate already you need only download and replace the palmate.exe file.

A minor - and for most people unimportant - update of Palview3 is now available. Some new icons by Mats Winther has been added to the Image Bank.
The Link Of The Month in March has an impressive collection of postcards with chess motifs.

An Excel 2000 spreadsheet for personal ELO calculation has been added to the page with Chess Programs & Utilities

The activity calendar for Nørresundby Chess Club has been updated.
A nifty Word macro for making diagrams has been added to the diagrams page.

The page Chess Programs & Utilities has been through a major housecleaning. An update was long overdue. Besides a new look and updated links you'll find an excellent new freeware program for tournament management by Harald Lögdahl. Links to some programs have been removed. For instance I can't locate the problem's program "Problematic" anymore. If you know where to find it, please let me know.

A new and much improved version of Palview. Palview is widely used on the Internet for making webpages with replayable chess games. The new version offers unsurpassed layout control and many new features.

The Link Of The Month in August is to an excellent site about chess in California.