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FEN Viewer: See Any Chess Position

Paste a FEN string to see the position on a clean board. No analysis, no arrows, just the position.

A FEN string encodes a full chess position.
Example:
r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/2n5/4p3/2B1P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R w KQkq - 2 4

Each viewed position gets its own shareable URL via the copy-link button, useful for annotating games, embedding positions in messages, or quickly checking a FEN without triggering a full analysis.

Analyze This Position

What is a FEN string?

FEN (Forsyth-Edwards Notation) is a one-line text description of a chess position. Chess sites, engines, and tools use it to save and share positions. Paste one above and this viewer draws the board for you.

The starting position looks like this:

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

A FEN has six parts, separated by spaces:

  1. Pieces. Ranks 8 down to 1, separated by slashes. Capital letters are White, lowercase are Black, and a digit counts empty squares.
  2. Side to move. w for White, b for Black.
  3. Castling rights. KQkq means both sides can still castle either way. A dash means none.
  4. En passant square. The square a pawn just skipped over, or a dash.
  5. Halfmove clock. Moves since the last capture or pawn move, used for the fifty-move rule.
  6. Move number. Starts at 1 and goes up after Black moves.

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