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chess templates

I'm new here and I noticed there's a chess book titled "Chess Guide for the Intermediate Player" it's very poorly written so I want to redo its writing and write some more stuff from scratch, but I've got a problem with the templates for adding chess positions, is there some way I can convert FEN to chess diagrams? Doctorbeak (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Is there any way that you can reword this for those of us who don't know what "FEN" is? There are not many persons who watch this page and not many who are familiar with notation styles for chess. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:27, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

hello, thank you for taking the time and responding to my query, FEN is a notation with the purpose of giving someone all the information necessary to restart a chess game from a particular position

so when making a wikibooks chess diagram I'd like to be able to input a FEN and the diagram will be drawn for me, however I couldn't find any template using FEN instead I had to set up the position myself in some pretty unfimiliar way Doctorbeak (discuss • contribs) 09:31, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

It seems like w:en:Template:Chess diagram-fen or possibly w:en:Template:Chess diagram will do that, correct? If so, ask an admin to import it. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:18, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, thx for the help

just one last small question, what is the appropriate place to ask the admins to import it? Doctorbeak (discuss • contribs) 13:04, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

To request import, its WB:RFI ^{— L10nM4st3r} / _{ROAR at me!} 20:22, 8 August 2023 (UTC)