How to post a game?

Are there directions somewhere. Or can someone give me the "idiot proof" directions? thanks.

I tried it once, let me fiddle around and I'll get back to you.

I'm going to try to post one myself, I don't think it will be too hard.

Click on the board on the left side where you write your messages in a post, next to the bold, italics, and font size.   There will be some steps, and you can follow it from there.... because I don't really know myself.

Firstly, you will need a PGN of your game. Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a computer-processable format for recording chess games. Every game we have played on chess.com has been saved using the PGN format and it is this code that we need when making diagrams of our games. To obtain a PGN of your game you need to select the game that you want from your game history and follow the intructions below:

Gosh!  That seems like a lot (14, anyway) of steps.

If we just pasted our pgn into our post, might not some kind (and idle person with time on their hands), convert that to a viewable game for us in our topic?

Or, a link to our game, such as this one:

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=173351384

sftac

Helpful brother

Thanks!

Badgambit, thanks for the very clear explanation.  I've been wondering.

Thank you!