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10th January 2008, 01:56pm

by gwfhegel
Philadelphia United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 44

I noticed in the forum topic on opening traps many people put in small boards and series of moves. How is that done?

Oh I see, I think I just figured it out. You click on the board icon.

Ok, but how do you paste a PGN file in. It says to paste it in, but what do you paste in and where do you get it?

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10th January 2008, 02:01pm

by Unbeliever
United States

Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1119

Just click the diagram part of the board icon. You don't need to use PGN or FEN, just move the pieces into the sequences you want to post.

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10th January 2008, 02:07pm

by gwfhegel
Philadelphia United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 44

Thanks Unbeliever. I understand that I don't have to use PGN, but I may want to.

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10th January 2008, 02:10pm

by Loomis
Durham, NC United States

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Member Points: 3106

PGN stands for portable game notation. It is a text based standard for representing a chess game including the moves, variations, and commentary. Any good chess program these days will output a pgn of a game. So if you analyze a game using some software and write your commentary in there, it can probably output a pgn file with all the commentary in it. Then you could paste the contents of that here at chess.com. Likewise, you can output your chess.com games as pgn from the page that lists your game archive.

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10th January 2008, 02:15pm

by Unbeliever
United States

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No problem gwfhegel, happy to help.

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10th January 2008, 05:08pm

by erik
Mountain View, CA United States

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http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-use-the-chesscom-diagr

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20th January 2008, 04:53pm

by gwfhegel
Philadelphia United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 44

Thanks. So it looks like I have to enter in each move by hand and I can't upload a PGN file that I already have? Also, in entering in by hand, there seems to be no way to erase an incorrect move entered in by mistake.

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20th January 2008, 05:31pm

by rgp89
New Jersey United States

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 676

Thanks for the explanation because I was wondering how people did the diagrams.

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20th January 2008, 05:34pm

by Loomis
Durham, NC United States

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 3106

You can delete incorrect moves. There is a button called "delete moves". It will delete all the moves in the current variation following the current move.

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20th January 2008, 05:40pm

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by batgirl
NC United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 4452

"I can't upload a PGN file that I already have?"

no, you don't have to upload anything. a pgn is a text file. Open it with notepad (on your computer if you use Windows - start/run/ type: notepad) or any text editor; copy the text and paste it into the appropriate place. très facile.

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20th January 2008, 05:48pm

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by gwfhegel
Philadelphia United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 44

So when you put the text in it appears as a diagram? I have games in Chessbase for example that I would like to upload.

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20th January 2008, 07:14pm

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by batgirl
NC United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 4452

You don't upload. I'm sure there's a way open a game and copy the moves using Chessbase. Copy the game, and paste it into the chess.com board editor where it indicates. Someone who uses software may be able to say if copying the game into clipboard using Chessbase, copies it as a pgn. I use winboard myself for that purpose.

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23rd January 2008, 10:35am

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by gwfhegel
Philadelphia United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 44

Ok I've done it from Chessbase. You go to email game, select PGN, then copy and paste the output from there into the chess.com window. It works!

Thanks everyone!

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