Opening PGN on MAC

Dear chess community!

Please help me with opening PGN files on my MAC. Also I want to view comments in Russian already recorded in PGN archive.

Have tried Shredder, but it doesn't display correctly Russian font.

Many thanks for you help!

P.s. may be there is some online pgn viewers, which could save my comments to reviewed pgn archives?

The Game Editor on this site is a perfectly good PGN editor - select More at top of any page & click on Analysis Board & Editor on the drop-down menu.

Select 'Game Editor' mode & you can then paste in your PGN file - it's not possible to directly import a PGN file into the Editor or save it (open it first in any text editor but remember to select the 'all file types' option). Then you can step through the moves & add/edit/delete any of the comments.

When you've finished, you can save the PGN by choosing the 'Copy PGN' option & then copy/paste it back into your text editor & from there save it to your PGN's folder ?

I don't know whether it will correctly display comments in Russian however !  But you could translate the comments one at a time into a language that does display o/k by using Google translate:-

http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT

many thanks it is very helpful that chess.com provides opportunity to open pgn if I have the text, but the problem is that I can't open properly the pgn file and see the russian words/notation there properly to do all steps you proposed furhter.

anyway, many thanks for your help and would appreciate if you give me a tip on opening russian notated pgn.

thanks,

Tigran

Tigran,  if I understand you correctly & you are having trouble just opening your .pgn files, then I may have the solution:  If you are using a text editor such as Notepad (but any text editor will do) then open your .pgn file by browsing to the folder where it's stored but remember to select the 'All Files' option in file-types, otherwise it won't display files other than .txt files !

Then you should be able to see the file you want & you can open it in the text-editor. Next, copy the entire PGN data to the clipboard (Ctrl+A to select all & Ctrl+C to copy). 
Finally, open the Game Editor on this site & paste the PGN text into it. You should then be able to see your game, step through the moves & see any annotation in any language.

For example, I constructed the following diagram/game using PGN data that I compiled with notes I translated using Google Translate (unlike you, I can't read Russian):-

If the notes in the diagram don't make any sense to you, please blame Google-Translate      

thanks a lot! will let you know on how I solved my chess analysis isue at last!

I have not had any trouble getting the PGN from chess.com games.  Until today.  I can download the PGN but not open it.  Error message says app is not Apple approved.  So I changed my security preferences to allow me to open it.  But instead of just PGN text, it's some kind of pgn viewer program.  Can't copy the moves.  Has something changed?  I've downloaded dozens of games here and pasted them into a game board.  (Using iMac)

I can help you there, xthread because a friend of mine on this site had exactly the same problem opening '.pgn' files on his mac!

What you need to do is open any text editor on your PC & then browse from within the text editor to the folder in which you keep your .pgn files. Then open the selected file in order to load it into the editor (you may need to set the file-type to 'All Files' to see pgn files because in Windows Notepad it only displays .txt files by default !).

By now you should be able to see the PGN information which is just several lines of plain text (some of it within square brackets) & you need to copy all of this to your clipboard. Then you should be able to paste this into a PGN Editor such as Game Editor & away you go.

Good luck with that    

Thanks, stephen_33.  Not sure why it stopped working like before but I found a way.  Downloads --> Show In Finder -->  Right click on file --> Open With --> TextEdit.  Then copy & paste.

Thanks.

Stockfish does not work with my Macbook Pro. It keeps saying that moves are invalid (even though they are definitely valid).

I use this site:

http://it.chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer.html

When I load a pgn file with multiple games, it only shows one game. How do I look at the other games ? Will someone kindly help with this ?

You managed to find a relevant topic that's been dormant for over five years?