Thank you, batgirl. I've wondered how to do this.
How to post a game.
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Wow-thats a lot of work!
Aug 12, 2012
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When something is shown step by tedious step, it usually looks much more complicated than it actually is. If you have winboard or some other simple chess interface, when you click to get your pgn, you can simply choose to open the pgn with winboard (or whatever), then copy it from winboard. That takes all of 10 seconds. Then start a forum thread and paste the game into the dialogue box and scroll through the different pages and submit. ... another 20 seconds. So, unless you are adding comments and variations, it's a >1 min. proceedure.
That chessboard icon doesn't work for me; must have to be a paying member to do it. Oh well.
Some had asked how to post a game. Here are the steps graphically:
Open your game and grab the pgn. You can either open it with a chess program and get the pgn that way or save it and open it in a text editor, like notepad, and copy it to clipboard.
After you have the pgn in clipboard, go to the forums and start a topic (or go to a topic that already exists). Give your topic a title and then click on the chessboard icon as circled below. This will open a separate editing window.
This is the editing window. Choose "game or sequence of moves" if posting a game. Then click "continue."
On the page that comes up, paste your pgn into the text area marked "Use a PGN file." Click "continue."
In this page you can make comments, insert variations or flip the board to Black on bottom. If you don't want any of these things, just continue on...
This page allows you to insert, delete, change information that will appear on the final board. Most of it will have been inserted automatically from the pgn.
This page allows you to chose a color scheme, piece type, board size (if a puzzle) and whether you want to display coordinates. You can now either preview the board to see how it looks, or go ahead and insert it into your posting.
When you insert it, it will just show as a place-marker, not the actual board until you submit it. I usually "save" it first so I can look at it to be sure everything is A-OK before I actually submit it.