Originally posted by DeepRedThe posting isn't working, it's missed out my middle paragraph... hopefully it will show up when it is quoted.
I had trouble with this when I started.
On your post, start with a square bracketed "fen" word, type the code (which I will explain in a minute), and end with another square bracketed "/fen" word.
The code is, start on a8 and move across to h8 for one rank, and for every Black piece use a capital letter (eg. black bishop=B and black rook=R) and for any Whi ...[text shortened]... y much the basics, and if you can't understand it you can PM me if you like. Happy posting!