I'm having trouble posting a game in PGN format. The posting wizard says "improper PGN please try again".

 

Here is the file:

[Event "World Championship 2nd "]
[White "Chigorin, Mikhail"]
[Black "Steinitz, William"]
[Date "1889/??/??"]
[Annotator "Ziryab"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[ECO "C 52"]
[Result "1-0"]


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O Qf6 {This move appea
rs 18 times in ChessBase online, 15 of which were played by Steinitz.} 7. d4
Nge7 (7... Nh6 {Steinitz proposed this move in The Modern Chess Instructor as
an improvement, forseeing as likely} 8. d5 (8. Bg5 {Played by Tschigorin when
Steinitz played his recommended improvement the following year.} Qd6 9. d5 Nd8
10. Qa4 Bb6 11. Na3 c6 12. Be2 Bc7 13. Nc4 Qf8 14. d6 Bxd6 15. Nb6 Rb8 16. Qxa7
Ne6 (16... Ng4 {was tried against Gunsberg in 1891} 17. Nh4 Ne6 18. Bxg4 Nxg5
19. Nf5 Ne6 20. Rfd1 Bc7 21. Na8 Rxa8 22. Qxa8 Kd8 23. Rxd7+ Kxd7 24. Rd1+ Nd4
25. cxd4 exd4 26. Nxg7+ Ke7 27. Qxc8 Qxc8 28. Bxc8 Rxc8 29. Rxd4 -- {1-0}) 17.
Bc1 Ng8 18. Ba3 c5 19. Rad1 Nf6 20. Bc4 $18 {Tschigorin went on to win}) 8...
Ne7 9. Qa4 Bb6 10. Bg5 (10. Na3 {
was played in a high level game at Wijk aan Zee in 1977} Ng4 11. h3 h5 12. Rb1
a6 13. Rxb6 cxb6 14. Rd1 Rb8 15. Qb4 Qg6 16. Bb3 b5 17. c4 d6 18. cxb5 a5 19.
Qxa5 b6 20. Qc3 Nf6 21. Ng5 Nxe4 22. Nxe4 Qxe4 23. Bg5 f6 24. Bc2 Qe2 25. Bc1
Bd7 26. Re1 Nxd5 27. Rxe2 Nxc3 28. Rd2 Rc8 29. Bb2 Nxb5 30. Bg6+ Ke7 31. Nc2
Be8 32. Bd3 g6 33. Ne3 Nd4 34. Nd5+ Ke6 35. Nxb6 Rb8 36. Bc4+ Kf5 37. Nd5 {
1/2-1/2 Timman-Kurajica}) 10... Qd6 11. Na3 c6 12. Rad1 {"At this juncture
Black has to take the choice between retarding his development for a long time
or allowing two 'holes' to be formed in the centre. As will be seen the two
holes are more dangerous to his game than the block that White will create."
(Steinitz)} Qb8 (12... f6 13. dxc6 Qxc6 14. Nb5 fxg5 (14... Bc5 15. Be3) (14...
Bc7 15. Bd5 Qb6 16. Be3 Qa5 17. Nd6+ Kf8 18. Qxa5 Bxa5) 15. Nxe5 Qc5 16. Nd6+
Kf8 17. Nxc8 (17. Qxd7 {fails on account of} Qc6 $1 {(Steinitz)}) 17... Qxe5
18. Nxb6 $18) 13. Bxe7 Kxe7 14. d6+ Kf8 15. Qb4 (15. Nxe5 Bc5 {And now Black's
pieces are certainly shut out uncomfortably for the present, but out theory is
that White's QP being too far advanced will require the protection of Queen
and Rook for some time, and if Black's King can only be guarded against any
attacking surprises the defence ought gradually to obtain the best of the game
with the majority of Pawns on the Queen's side and the two Bishops.})) 8. Ng5
Nd8 9. f4 exd4 10. cxd4 Bb6 11. Be3 d5 12. Bxd5 Nxd5 13. exd5 O-O 14. Nc3 Re8
15. Nge4 Qg6 16. Bf2 c6 17. Re1 Bd7 18. Nc5 Rxe1+ 19. Qxe1 Qd6 20. Qe3 cxd5 21.
Nxd7 Qxd7 22. Nxd5 Nc6 23. Nxb6 axb6 24. Re1 h6 25. d5 Nb4 26. Rd1 Nxd5 27. Qe5
Rxa2 28. Rxd5 Ra1+ 29. Qxa1 Qxd5 30. Bxb6 Qe4 31. g3 h5 32. Qd4 Qf3 33. Qe3
Qd1+ 34. Kg2 Qc2+ 35. Qf2 Qc6+ 36. Kg1 h4 37. Qc5 hxg3 38. hxg3 Qe4 39. Kf2 Qh1
40. Qc8+ Kh7 41. Qg4 Qh2+ 42. Kf1 Qh1+ 43. Bg1 Qd5 44. Qh3+ Kg8 45. Qc8+ Kh7
46. Qc5 Qd3+ 47. Kg2 Qd7 48. Bd4 f6 49. Kf3 b5 50. g4 Qb7+ 51. Kg3 b4 52. Qf5+
Kg8 53. g5 fxg5 54. Qe6+ Kh7 55. fxg5 Qc7+ 56. Kg4 g6 57. Qf6 Qc8+ 58. Kh4 Qh3+
59. Kxh3 b3 60. Qg7# 1-0

 

Hmm, everything looks ok but I think the "annotator" line should not be there.

The annotator line is fine ( you can test by removing it entirely)

I believe the elo tags can have "?" s but not be null => ""

try changing them to "????" or even "2400" I bet that will work.

also be sure to check the parenthesis in the game itself.

IF you used a WP to edit the PGN certain control chars in the text may be invisible but not ASCII chars allowed in PGN spec

type "PGN"+"spec" into Google ICC has a good reference to PGN specs which actually have a ANSI spec covering them.

I just "cut" the text, went to fritz 10, went new game edit paste-game, and guess what? It works!

Thanks.

 

I played with it a bit more, mostly eliminating long sequences of subvariations with notes as that sort of thing has stifled some PGN readers in the past. It is now posted in my blog. It's funny that the ? marks were missing, as the PGN was generated by ChessBase, and it usually puts those in,

i just want you to know that i have heard you on this issue. i will look into it soon, but cannot currently (we are trying to release some really big projects right now). can you ping me on it in a few weeks?

thanks for understanding!