This Chess Reader only works in Internet Explorer, and then only if you have Java installed and enabled, and if "http://www.bds-soft.com" is in your Java Exception List in your Control Panel.
Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and other browsers no longer support Java Applets, and this Chess Reader was written back in 1999 whan Java Applets were current technology. Not so much anymore.
I've kept it here in the Legasy section for that reason - and because it still might provide some coding ideas which you may find interesting and/or useful.
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The BDS Software Chess Reader plays through selected chess games from the past. Click on one of the openings below and then click on a specific game from that opening's catalog of games. After the Chess Board has loaded, just repeatedly click the "Move" button to step though the game.
The Chess Board takes a few seconds to load and the first move takes a couple of seconds after you click the button, but after that the moves are essentially instantaneous.
The Chess Reader's Chess Board Display is driven by a Java Applet and the Position and Movement Control are provided by JavaScript.
If you would like to examine the code: a sample game, the images, the Java Applet, and the JavaScript are available for download as the chess.zip package.
I won't apologize for the game selections - I picked what I liked and the games are predominately King's Indian Defense, English Opening, and Center Counter Games because those are the openings I play.
PGN: Not exactly. The coding I used is similar to Portable Game Notation (PGN) but it includes additional html tags, has a different tag roster, and requires the move list to be continuous text without internal end-of-line characters. It is also a single-game-per-file format.
M.D.J. 2018/07/07