movingpcs = on | off
default: off

One of the more interesting features of Palview is the movingpcs command. This command allows the viewers of your Html page to Kibitz on the chess board by freely moving the pieces around themselves without regard to the actual moves played in the game. A viewer only has to click on the piece he wants to move, and then click on the square he wants to move it to. In Internet Explorer 4, and greater, the piece you click itself will follow the cursor as you move it to the square you want. The piece will be dropped when you click on the new square. In Netscape 6 the piece does not follow the cursor, but it will be moved to the new square that you click on. Unfortunately, this new feature is not available for Netscape 4 users. Users of NS4 will still be able to use the other features of the page, but cannot Kibitz.

In the example below you can see that the last move played on the board from the actual game is 17. Rxe6!. You can also see that the black pawn on f7 is being picked up to capture the white rook using the movingpcs command.

Please note that the movingpcs does not in any way affect the position of the game itself. The last position in the game is always remembered by the Script. This means that your viewers can simply click on the Forward button, to play the very next move from the actual game.

This new feature adds approximately 2K to the size of the Html page(s) that Palview generates. We think that this is small enough to recommend that you always turn this new feature on with:

movingpcs = on