FEN for other people's games

When we are observing a board of a game which we are not playing (be it one in progress or
on that has been completed), it would be convenient to be able to obtain the FEN notation
for the current/final state so that we could plug that into a chess program and analyse it.

I am thinking of a game that a friend of mine is playing and the opponent resigned in my opinion
prematurely. It would be neat if I could get the FEN for that game, plug it into my computer and
play out the rest of the game, just for the sake of experience.

There is a fast but dirty way to do that.
When you are looking at the game, use the "view source" menu button of your
browser to show you the source html of the page. if you scroll down the page,
you'll find the FENs, especially if you search for the word "FenArray". you'll
want the last one on the list.

On a similar subject, I'd love to be able to grab PGN files from public
games, not just my own. I'll buy a year's subscription if this feature
gets added!

Ok, I'll hold you to that.

Both of these features should be available soon.

[I also will be releasing code to start a custom game from a FEN
value, so you can even play on if you wish]

-Russ

Originally posted by maggoteer
There is a fast but dirty way to do that.
When you are looking at the game, use the "view source" menu
button of your
browser to show you the source html of the page. if you scroll down
the page,
you'll find the FENs, especially if you search for the word "FenArray".
you'll
want the last one on the list.

I don't see a game details when I am looking at someone else's game. Where would this be?