---
title: "Render the current board position as SVG for any playable family (chess, draughts, go, reversi, shogi, xiangqi, mancala, morris, hex, landlords-game, backgammon, standard-52, bavarian-32, flower-48, double-six-dominoes, mahjong, standard-dice, agon, asalto, chaupar, dou-shou-qi, fanorona, halma, nyout, pachisi, royal-ur, senet, stern-halma, surakarta, tafl)."
method: POST
path: "/api/tools/play_render_board"
---

# Render the current board position as SVG for any playable family (chess, draughts, go, reversi, shogi, xiangqi, mancala, morris, hex, landlords-game, backgammon, standard-52, bavarian-32, flower-48, double-six-dominoes, mahjong, standard-dice, agon, asalto, chaupar, dou-shou-qi, fanorona, halma, nyout, pachisi, royal-ur, senet, stern-halma, surakarta, tafl).

`POST /api/tools/play_render_board`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://tools.moddable.games`
- URL: `https://tools.moddable.games/api/tools/play_render_board`
- Auth: none declared

## Request body

- object
  - `state` object, required: Game state object from play_create_game or play_apply_move
  - `highlights` object[]: Optional cells to highlight (e.g. [{key: 52, color: "#ff0"}])
    - `key` integer
    - `color` string
  - `size` integer: Board width in pixels for PNG output (default: 480, max: 2048)

## Response `200`

Tool result

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/moddable/apis/moddable-games-tools.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/moddable/apis/moddable-games-tools/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/moddable/apis/moddable-games-tools/revisions/637a0b62cb9a?raw)