Implement a Chess Board into TW (Most Wanted 2025)

#1

In the core:

Moved to their own threads

See: Adopt Lucide Iconse for TW (Most Wanted 2025)

  • TiddlyWiki to adopt Lucide by default - this will give plugin developers a great set to work from, with many more icons available that fit with standard TW. I believe the pull request is quite close by now.

And two plugins beyond my abilities:

And two plugins beyond my abilities:

  • (pie-in-the-sky wish) Chessboard2 to resolve its bugs, and for someone to then make a TiddlyWiki PGN reader that uses it. The original chessboard.js still works, but it pulls in a lot of jquery and I never liked the interaction much. It just feels wrong. There is also the chessground library used by Lichess but the lack of chess logic might make it less good. It’s nice to store a famous game, but you might also want to play variations within the move while analysing it.

    Of course, you could just use Lichess’s studies feature to achieve almost everything I’m asking for. It is arguably a better avenue than TiddlyWiki. That includes cases where you are going through chess books and want to keep notes. Many users have digitised the games featured in chess books into Lichess studies, so you can copy the book’s study and take your own notes that way.
    I just like the idea of storing games in TiddlyWiki. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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#2

Get your idea bigger.

As a Front-End TW is very well situated.

Why? Because it is all but only the “browser side”.

With minor clarifications (already working in cases) the “browser side” can eat infinite
external data.

SO in 2025 …

1 … munch data more easily

2 … master prompts to AI

TT

#3

I’ve spent some time searching the web for TiddlyWiki chess stuff and I didn’t find anything.

#4

TW itself is INcapable of chess play.

As usual there are windows to the White Queen from TW …

#5

TW itself is INcapable of chess play.

Just like my posts in the thread you’re linking to show, I’m not interested in playing chess in TiddlyWiki. Just in storing chess games recorded in PGN format, being able to visualize, navigate, annotate and search them. This is chess database stuff rather than chess client (as in either frontend to an engine, like Stockfish, or an online chess server like FICS or Lichess) functionality. Think something a la Scid.

Of course, such a wiki would have to make use of a library that “understands” the rules of the game and can process PGN and FEN, like the aforementioned chessboard.js

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#6

Right.

IMO all of this is about Interface … TW is likely the best suited start-up to cope with this.

We need, maybe, better understanding how TW can control anything controllable.