With all due respect, there's got to be a better way to view games on lichess

Lichess Studies are amazing, but there's a lot going on with them. To wit:

This is great for many purposes, but for a simple blog that wishes to just share an annotated game as clearly and as simply as possible it's a bit much. For this reason I've made a lichess study viewer that is significantly "quieter" and focuses on what I imagine most readers would like to see - the moves, a simple way to explore variations, and context-sensitive commentary.

Here it is, in action, beside the following lichess study - notice the difference in terms of mental distraction from this:

To this:

Some design choices that I've made to prioritize simplicity:

• No engine analysis
• Variations pop up as separate windows
• Minimal features - basically the moves, variations, and commentary, much like you would get in a book

I plan to to use this in my blogs and let me know if you do as well, particularly if (or, really when) you find any bugs.

The site I'm hosting this viewer on is chessvue.com, and the format for direct links is https://chessvue.com/?study=[studyURL].

Thanks,

- Zug