[tzs]

For the direction a quick way to tell from the board diagram in this case is to note that across the bottom and right side it has the column letters and row numbers. Row 1 is where the white pieces start and row 8 is where the black pieces start. Since this board has row 8 on the bottom we know that the board is oriented with black pawns moving up.

For whose turn it is you can look at the FEN for the position, which is given at the bottom of the article:

> 8/6B1/8/8/B7/8/K1pk4/8 b - - 0 1

The second field in that indicates whose move it is: "b" for black and "w" for white.

You can also tell that the pawn is close to promoting from the FEN. The first field is simply a slash separated list of the contents of each row, starting from the black side of the board (row 8). In the entry for each row the numbers represent runs of empty squares. The letters represent white pieces (KQRBN) or white pawns (P) or black pieces (kqrbn) or black pawns (p).

Black pawns start at row 7, and we can see that this one is in row 2.

[Waterluvian]

Thank you!