Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about creating, customising, and ordering chess art from Forever Chess Games.
Everything you need to know about creating, customising, and ordering chess art from Forever Chess Games.
Forever Chess Games turns any chess game into a unique piece of art. Every move in the game is drawn as a line on the board — white's moves in one colour gradient and black's in another — creating a beautiful visualisation of the entire game. You can browse famous games from our collection, upload your own, fully customise the design, and order premium wall art prints.
Browse our collection of famous games or explore by player, opening, or event. When you find a game you like, click “Customise” to open the design editor where you can change colours, fonts, layout and more. You can also order directly from the game page using the default style.
From the create page, paste your game's PGN (Portable Game Notation) into the text box and click “Create”. PGN is the standard format used by all chess platforms. You can paste the full PGN including header tags (Event, White, Black, Date, etc.) and the move text. The header information will automatically populate the title, player names, date, and event on your design.
On Chess.com, go to your game, click the share/export button, and copy the PGN. On Lichess, open the game, click the analysis board, scroll to the bottom and open the “FEN & PGN” menu, then click “Download raw”. You can open the downloaded .pgn file with any text editor (Notepad on Windows, TextEdit on Mac) and copy-paste the contents. Most other chess platforms also offer PGN export.
Almost everything. In the design editor you can change: board colours (light and dark squares), move line colours and gradients (separate start and end colours for white and black), line width and style, portrait or landscape layout, view from white or black's perspective, show or hide the board, font family (Roboto Slab, sans-serif, serif, monospace), font size and weight for each text element (event title, player names, date, result, notation, start/end labels), text colours for each element, and whether each text section is visible or hidden.
Yes. Every text section — event title, player names, date and place, result, move notation, and start/end colour labels — has its own visibility toggle in the design editor. You can show or hide each one independently to create exactly the look you want, from a minimal board-only design to a full poster with all details.
The text shown on the design comes from the PGN header tags. To change the title, edit the [Event] tag in your PGN before uploading (e.g. change [Event “My Greatest Game”]). Player names come from [White] and [Black], and the date from [Date] and [Site]. Make sure your edits stay inside the quotation marks so the PGN format remains valid.
We offer a range of premium wall art products including framed posters, canvas prints, unframed posters, and metal prints. Each product is available in multiple sizes. All products are printed on demand and shipped worldwide with free shipping.
Once you're happy with your design, choose a product type and size from the game page or design editor, then add it to your cart. At checkout, you'll pay securely via Stripe. After your order is placed, we manually review every design to ensure it looks great at print size and is correctly positioned on the product. Once approved, the order is sent to our professional printing partner for production and shipped directly to you.
Yes. We manually review the positioning and quality of every single piece of artwork before it goes to our printers. This means we check that your design is correctly centred, the colours work well at print size, and the overall composition looks great on the product you've chosen. If we spot any issues, we'll reach out to you before printing. This quality check is included at no extra cost — we want every print to look perfect.
Production typically takes 3-5 business days. Shipping times vary by location: 5-10 business days for the US and Europe, and 10-20 business days for the rest of the world. All orders include free worldwide shipping. You'll receive tracking information once your order ships.
Yes. Every design has a unique URL that you can share with anyone. They'll see your exact colour scheme, layout, and text choices. You can also share game pages directly — the link is in your browser's address bar.
Yes, you can browse games and order products on any device. For the best experience when customising designs, we recommend using a larger screen (tablet or desktop) as the design editor has many controls. The final printed product will look the same regardless of which device you use to create it — you'll see an accurate mockup preview before ordering.
FCG stands for Forever Chess Games. The subtle watermark appears on all visualisations as part of the design. It's our signature mark showing the artwork was created with Forever Chess Games.
Each line on the board represents a single move. White's moves are drawn in one colour gradient (transitioning from a start colour to an end colour as the game progresses) and black's moves in another. This means you can see the flow of the entire game at a glance — where the pieces moved early on versus late in the game, and how the two players' pieces interacted across the board.