For what reason you need pgn viewer?
For example, you can open pgns here, on chess.com: Learn-->Analysis-->Load pgn
Free (or lowish cost) PGN viewer?
Sort:
Dec 15, 2019
0
#3
My coach sends me homework in the form of a PGN file. What chess.com can do is load up a PGN copy, which is not quite what I need. Understood? 
I use tarrash on my PC and Analyze this Free on mobile
You can download Stockfish (which is free) on your mac and it has pgn viewer, which looks like IDE. If you aren't going to be satisfied with that - try to download pirate ChessBase copy (if you can't afford to buy it). Also there are a lot of free programs, just search for them.
I used to have "illegal" ChessBase but it was something like CB11 or so... It also didn't have a proper engine and a database. So I manually installed them from third party resources. It was really ugly but it somehow worked.
There are a few windows applications, like Tarrasch Chess GUI, ChessX, and LucasChess.
All of them are much worse than SCID vs PC, as far as I'm concerned.
On Droid devices, Kalab's applications Scid on the Go (free) and Chess PGN Master (free as a reader, 8$ for editing features) is as good as it gets.
Get Chessbase
Dec 16, 2019
0
#9
There is also a PGN viewer on chess.com, on lich**s, and of course, on chessbase.
https://www.chess.com/analysis
Dec 16, 2019
0
#10
MiddlegamerUmesh wrote:
Also, you can open a pgn file with a text editor and copy-paste each pgn into 1 chapter of a lichess study. That way, you can save your moves/analysis for later as well.
↑
Dec 16, 2019
0
#11
Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.
50kg έγραψε:
Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.
No, it isn't. Chess Assistant (also commercial) and SCID vs PC miss very little, if anything, to Chessbase.
Dec 16, 2019
0
#14
pfren wrote:
50kg έγραψε:
Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.
No, it isn't. Chess Assistant (also commercial) and SCID vs PC miss very little, if anything, to Chessbase.
Ok. I just know almost nothing about Chess Assistant...
I have a Macbook Pro as well. It doesn't support chessbase so just download stockfish on the app store. it reads pgns.
pfren wrote:
50kg έγραψε:
Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.
No, it isn't. Chess Assistant (also commercial) and SCID vs PC miss very little, if anything, to Chessbase.
The board in CA looks really ugly. This is a huge disadvantage if a user wants to create videos or take screenshots in order to make diagrams. Anyway CA's interface looks like a Windows-95 program.
Hey everyone. I know I've probably posted stuff like this in the past, though is there a good/reliable PGN viewer you guys would recommend?
I'm a broke college student, so I can't afford Chessbase (even though people tell me I "need" it). I've been using SCID vs. PC/Mac, but I just don't really care for it.
Thanks, guys!