How to create a PGN file?

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wbf1230

I would like to create my own PGN files.  The software I use autosaves games and can load up pgns that are downloaded from here.  I would like to know how to create a pgn file and just add games to it instead of getting duplicate games in downloaded pgn files.  I like to do a self analysis of the game before I look at the analysis here at the site.  Does anyone know how do go about creating a pgn that can have games added to it?

notmtwain
wbf1230 wrote:

I would like to create my own PGN files.  The software I use autosaves games and can load up pgns that are downloaded from here.  I would like to know how to create a pgn file and just add games to it instead of getting duplicate games in downloaded pgn files.  I like to do a self analysis of the game before I look at the analysis here at the site.  Does anyone know how do go about creating a pgn that can have games added to it?

A pgn file is just a text file saved with certain standard headers.  Read the wikipedia to see all the headers that are available.

You will probably have fewer errors if you create a pgn using the analysis board here.  You can turn off the analysis and evaluation functions.