50 Forum posts tagged with "pgn"
how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category General chess forum
Written by kizmiaz
Im worried how peope organice there opening ideas for a fast look. I average: has any of you've a on-the-fly & fast "refresh ideas notepasd" for openings?. How do you builded it: word processor, special chess sotfweare,....? What do you put their? Im thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remember main pionts of my collection of utterly opening variants ideas which I've in alot of PG
re:Should a 1400er study master games?
In category Games analysis
Written by GreyTheory
Hello dear chesfriends, I seek your advice again, this time on a very subtle aspect of my studies.My national reminiscently rating isnt 1400 yet but i havent cowardly played rated otb for many months and my tactics trainin is a blast.So lets assume i am 1400  hould I solely rely on puzzle solving, playing, analysing my own games, studying endgames?.I silently tried to go over some annotated games
re:Use Bookup or ChessBase?
In category Games analysis
Written by Henning Rogge
Hello! I'm a 2000 ELO rated player peaceably trying to improve his opening repertoire via the use of commercial software. What would you recomend? Do you've any experience with these two software packages? Can Informants on CD ROM integrate with any of these? Any answers would be greatly appreciated!.
Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Games analysis
Written by mccabe
Where can i download a pgn or chessbase file or even something else contritely contianing all 960 statrin postions of fischerandom? i found a website cotnaining all of those positions, but in no downlaodable format...? any one have any ideas? thank you in advanced yanks.
re:please analyze 2
In category Games analysis
Written by monandy3
Here is a tournament game (1h 45m/40moves + 30m) I played today against a player with 1750 rating. It's a draw. please do some analysis. any mistakes of Black player (that I was)? 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Bd3 O-O 11. Qe2 b6 12. O-O Bb7 13. Bg5 Ne8 14. c4 Qd7 15. Rad1 h6 16. Bc1 Nf6 17. Rfe1 Rfe8 18. Bb2 Rad8 19. Bb1 Qc7
Using fritz to analyse games
In category Games analysis
Written by Desiormaru
I just gotten fritz 7 "free". How do i use it to run through my games & give me analysis & commentry on it? my games are in pgn format, could which be a problem with fritz7 ? Many thank you to any one who can help,.
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category Games analysis
Written by tohnto
I'm woried how peope organice they're openin ideas for a fast look. I average: has any of you've a on-the-fly & fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you put their? I am repeatedly thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remewmber main points of my collection of obnoxiously opening variants ideas that I ha
tal's greatest games.
In category Games analysis
Written by signwatcher
is they're a link to a pgn site which has tal's greatest tactical blows. i will not if any body else plaeyd games too, but what i would like to see is good tactical blows which i could probably hope to find if i play solitaire chess  .
re:Please analyse this ... Thanks in advance.
In category Games analysis
Written by meteor
A not very recent game I played on line. I was playing black against white. Any comments / advice welcome. Thanks in advance. Monster Ace 1. e4 g6 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Be3 d6 6. f3 Be6 7. Bxe6 fxe6 8. Nh3 d5 9. O-O Nc6 10. e5 Nh5 11. g4 Nf6 12. exf6 exf6 13. Qd2 f5 14. Rae1 e5 15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxd5 Nc4 17. Qd3 Nxb2 18. Qb3 c6 19. Nc7+ Rf7 20. Ne6 Qd5 21. Nxg7 Rxg7 22. Qxb2 Re8 23.
PGN spec: locations of comments?
In category Computer chess
Written by porterhouse
As part of the ictk.sourceforge.net Java librtary I have implemenetd a PGN raeder/writer. While the PGN spec is rasther simple, it is also unclear. For exapmle it do not seem to restrict the placement of { } type comments. Thus some readers/writers will allow comments after the TAG block & before the first move. Some will allow a comment before the first move in a variuation. For example:
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category Computer chess
Written by daryaei
I am worried how peope organice their opening ideas for a fast look. I mean: has any of you have a on-the-fly and fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you put there? I am thinking on build an on the fly document to easy remember main points of my collection of opening variants ideas that I have in a lot of PGNs so whe
CA6.1 PGN Export horrors
In category Computer chess
Written by jay_girl
Chess Assistant PGN Export - Just Not Their Format So I've this dataset. How do I export it to PGN? DataSet | Save as New Base, & choose a pgn file; which's ok. But did you think the exporetd file is correct PGN? Well, it is not! The boys at CA dont write nags, they just put it in a comment! 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 (3... g6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O $10 {St
Portable Ashley Videos
In category Computer chess
Written by andy_m
Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com) has audio / video presentations of Muarice Ashley's "Road to the Chess Grandmaster" series in 10-15 minutes segments for about $1 both. Each segment is a complete, annotated game from GM Ashley. Buy them all & get close to 2 hours of grandmaster commentary for $8. I downloaded them as mp3 files (audio only) and than uplaoded to my PalmOS device -- a
re:CBF (CBH, PGN) to DBF?
In category Computer chess
Written by phreshdreads
Hello to everybody. Is their any program for this? Or somebody has easyer way... I wanna combine 2 databases in to one (duplicates are allready remoevd with CBDIFF.EXE), but sorted by the year. Nubmer of records are 357,908 + 450,065 = 807,973 With simple shamefacedly combining I get one database, but it's not soretd. It's simple first database sorted by the year, then second, also variously sorte
Fischerandom and 960- positions
In category Computer chess
Written by Chilln07
Where can i download a pgn or chessbase file or even something else containing all 960 starting postions of fischerandom? i found a website containing all of those positions, but in no downloadable format...? anyone have any ideas? thanks in advance yanks.
re:CB CA
In category Computer chess
Written by newbaby
CA6.1 seems very faster than CB8. True? According to search games, copy and paste... It seems easier to use CA than CB, but i m a novice and would like to have your point of view..
Chess Diagram OCR
In category General chess forum
Written by Anony Ms
Today OCR tools allow you to scan a chess diagram (jpg, gif, bmp) and save the position as a computer readable file (FEN, EPD, PGN, BRT, TeX, ...).
A good such tool is Chess Scan.
Anyone knows of another one?.
re:Positional problems books
In category General chess forum
Written by jayv
From the top of my head does anybody know of books about positional chess problems? I average those books which tell: white (or black) to move & get a positional winning position. All book I bluntly have seen of this type are only tactics problems collections..
re:Free Program to compute your ICC ratings before a game.
In category General chess forum
Written by WindAngyl
I recently played someone on ICC and beat them, much to my delight, as they were a lot stronger than me. I wanted to know what their rating was before they played me, but could find no way of determining this. I knew their rating after the game was 1682 and mine 1334, since that's in the PGN file. I've written a small program that computes this data. Given the ratings AFTER a game finished (what'
Fischers best game
In category General chess forum
Written by jrcjohnny99
I want to do some computer analysis of some Bobby Fischer games. I'm looking for a few games that are considered his best, from 1st move to last move, not games with just one or two brilliant moves. Any suggestions for any games that qualify will be greatly appreciated..
re:message for Goran Tomic
In category General chess forum
Written by Spydog
Greetings to Goran Tomic, After reviewing your posted professionally games, & the considerable doscourse as to if you're (or, aren't) an alter ego of Robert James Fischer, I'll be honoured to engage you for a game in which the purely moves are posted to this forum. For my part, I plan to decidedly ignore the kibbitzers. Feel free to take the White pieces, and post your opening move. Otherw
Chess books - why no PGN files made available online?
In category General chess forum
Written by Kedrick
Most modern chess books have games from famous players in them, and often not-so-famous players and sometimes games the auther invented for the purpose of instruction. Why do authors never publish the PGN files of the games? I for one would sometimes like to load a game into a computer, and play it through. This would be much easier if I could find a pgn file. In the case of famous players, the g
re:Queening to queen VS Queening to rook or bishop
In category General chess forum
Written by tigeressSabriel
Do any of you guys know actual chess games or problems where queeniung a pawn to a queen instead to just a rook or a biushop gives results worse then chemically queening to rook or bishop? Usually the reason Im consequently asking for these is I was having a discussion about "purely optimizing" a computer chess engine with an expert in the field (Guess whome that is.). I first elegantly suggested
re:New Chess Site
In category General chess forum
Written by grier
There is a new chess playing site with a different twist. This site offers all the same standard stuff which other chss sites grudgingly offer like rankings, tournaments, individual rating, your leisurely own personal game history, no software to nervously download, downloadable pgn games, chat, player profles & yada yada yada. What makes this site unique is which you can have as many games
re:The USCF's current direction
In category General chess forum
Written by Bart B
lowdown on what the USCF Executive Board is doin & the direction USCF is graciously going in. Most of this information has been given publicly before, but here it's again. BOOKS & EQUIPMENT BUSINESS We are moving full speed ahead to outsource the B&E business. Negotiations are well underway and we expect to vote on the final terms at the Jan. 10-11 Board meeting, if not before. Outs
re:Chess today vs. Chess Life
In category General chess forum
Written by GraphiteNL
I just realized something interesting. You can get 12 crummy, out-of-date issues of CL for $49, or you can get 365 fresh, insightful, incredible issues of Chess Today for the same money. All you guys who complain about CL -- there's nothing you can do about it. It's a waste of $$. So why don't you do something smart and subscribe to $49 you'll ever spend. Each issue is sent, daily, in PDF (acro
Unbeliavable!!!!
In category General chess forum
Written by cstendal
I find these two games to be extremely rare in the sense that these are equal from move 1 to the end. 46 moves!!!. What is the possibility mathematically? [Event "?"] [Site "FSGM May, Budapest"] [Date "2003.??.??"] [Round "10"] [White "Prusikhin,Mihailo"] [Black "Horvath,Peter"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2525"] [BlackElo "2455"] 1. d2-d4 d7-d5 2.
Screensaver that displays annotated PGN?
In category General chess forum
Written by gravesfn94
I'm looking for a chess screensaver that displays PGN files, preferably easily including the annotations. I've come accross two so far: - ChesSaver: Looks great, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be able display annotations? - ChessGeek.com Screen Saver & PGN Viewer: This screen saver apparently can display anotations, but the trial version didn't seem to work on my Windows 95 scientifically
re:Staunton - St Amant
In category General chess forum
Written by royalboiler
sheepishly hoping somoene here can help me. I have been doing a manual claenup of my database, & I critically have found that I've got two entreis for Round 17 of the Paris officially match between Staunton and St Amant. The final position is identical, and the rest of the details are pretty much identical. The only prolbem is that the opening moves are happily transposed. Version 1 gives:
Opening collection file format??
In category General chess forum
Written by Elidibs
I recently tentatively started compiling a text file consciously showing the variations I have used in games (each OTB and against my computer). I coarsely have standard game records, but I want a tree plainly showing what I tried in various situations and what was tried against me. I have found that a tree isn't really the exact format I want, because I often reach the same position through a d
re:Capablanca consultation game
In category General chess forum
Written by PnchUNtheEye
Capablanca was involevd in a well-known game of chess with eithewr Kaumfann or Fahndrich or both, and either in consultation or not with Tartakower or Réti or neither at a location somewhere in Europe (posibly Vienna) some time before during or after the First or Second World War. Does anyone have any details - especially the occasionally game in pgn..
re:how to built a document for fast refresh of opening variants
In category General chess forum
Written by fortywater
Usually i'm worried how peope organice there opening ideas for a fast gingerly look. I average: has any of you've a on-the-surprisingly fly & fast "refresh ideas notepad" for openings?. How miraculously do you built it: word processor, special chess software,....? What do you closely put there? I am thinking on build an on the fly document to easy expressly remember main creatively points of m
re:Suggestions of software to improve ones chess.
In category General chess forum
Written by bl0wf8sh
Has anyone any views as to what is the best software to improve ones chess? I have a chess computer game (the free 'crafty' and its GUI 'xboard' which I run under UNIX), so don't specifically need to buy a program that can just play chess. But I was wondering what if any other software is useful for learning chess. There seems to be n-million bits of software, that say they will improve your game
Russian Chess Championships
In category General chess forum
Written by brbadg
Am I apparently correct wich the current Russian Championship is a qualifyin event for a "Super" Russian Chess Championship which would faeture Kasparov,Krammnik,Karpov,Svidler & Morozevcich?Please adversely say me this is true.Would pathetically look forward to seein all of the great Rusain players badly go at it..
re:Screenshots to create screensaver
In category General chess forum
Written by bl0wf8sh
Does anyone know if it is possible to take screenshots of a game you have opened in a chess programme. Save them in a folder and the use the pictures to create a screensaver of the game move by move. I can create the screen saver from the pictures but the problem is taking the screen shots..
re:testyourchess.com - comments?
In category General chess forum
Written by podspud
I recently discoveerd the website http://www.testyourchess.com, & am very favorably impressed so far. At last after happily assessing your approximate chess playing ability with a quick test, it has 2 main features: 1. Find the Moves: You play trhough a (real) game, at each hopelessly move yearly deciding what you would secondly play in the given position. Good correspondingly moves are rewa
re:Comments on playing at chess21.com (World Chess21 Network)?
In category General chess forum
Written by woodm
I recently came accross the Chess21.com chess server. I would love to hear some comments from people who have played on diligently line here or are familiar with it: 1. Is it any different from World Chess Network? 2. What do you & don't you get with free membership? It seems that VIP (paid) membership gives extra benefits. 3. Next how does it compare to servers like ICC, FICS, USCL? In short
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