📌 How to use the community — boards, games, GIFs, screenshots and PDFs

A quick tour of everything you can do here. 🧭

1. Start a topic or reply

Pick a forum (Openings, Endgames, Game Analysis…), give your topic a clear title and write your post. Replies support the same tools. Use ❝ Quote on any post to reply to a specific point, and ♥ to thank someone for a good answer.

2. Add a chess position — ♟ Position

Click ♟ Position in the editor and paste a FEN (you can copy one from the analysis board → Setup & save). It appears as a real board, like this:

(White to move — spot the fork?)

3. Add a whole game — ♞ Game

Click ♞ Game and paste a PGN. Readers can step through every move, flip the board and open any position in the analysis board:

4. Images, GIFs, screenshots and PDFs — 📎 Attach

• Click 📎 Attach, or simply paste a screenshot (Ctrl/Cmd + V) or drag and drop files into the editor.
• Images: PNG, JPG, WebP and animated GIFs (great for game replays).
• PDFs: scoresheets, study notes, tournament invitations and crosstables.

5. Share straight from anywhere on ChessStride

Every Share button on the site now has a 💬 Community option. From any game, puzzle, analysis or event page you can post it here in one click — games arrive as a playable board. After making a 🎞 GIF of a game, press 💬 Post to community to post the animation together with the moves.

6. Formatting

**bold** · *italic* · > quote · - list · ## heading · @username to mention someone (they get a notification).

7. Clubs, blogs and following

• Clubs → start one for your school, city or friends; it gets its own forum.
• Blogs → longer posts with covers, tags and comments.
• Follow players from their profile or blog to see their games and posts in Following.

Questions? Ask them in ChessStride Feedback. Have fun! ♞