i try to post a game

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Avatar of redevil_buska

But i get as far as copying the Fen and it just shows the mate, I'm trying to show the last 8 moves or so and need abit of help, Thanks fellow chessheads.

Avatar of Guolin

You need PGN for that. That, or 16 seperate FEN's for every single ply.

Avatar of redevil_buska

oh ok mind explaining how i do it with the pgn?

Avatar of Guolin

You know algebraic notation?

For example, square on a file and fifth rank would be a5.

Now, if a man moves there, the first letter of the man (with the exception of Knight, which is N, and Pawn, which doesn't have a letter in front of it in PGN) is added in front of it, like so: Ba6 = Bishop moves to square a6.

Now, a typical PGN format starts like this:

1.Na6 e5

This means that in the first move, White played his Knight to a6 and Black played his pawn to e5.

For example, here's the PGN of a game you just played that ended with a mate:

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.d6 Bxd6 5.f3 O-O 6.Qxd6 b6 7.a4 Nc6 8.g4 Ne8 9.Qd3 Qh4+ 10.Kd1 Nb4 11.Qe4 d5 12.cxd5 Bb7 13.Bf4 Bxd5 14.Qe5 Rd8 15.Nd2 f6 16.Qc3 Nc6 17.e4 Bxe4 18.Bg3 Bxf3+ 19.Qxf3 Qg5 20.h4 Qxd2#
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Just copy and paste that, and you can insert it to show your game! I believe this is the game you wanted to show.

Avatar of redevil_buska

lol thanks man

Avatar of redevil_buska

I didn't realise we have to do so much to show a game, Thanks for the help and your time much appreaciated.

Avatar of jerry2468

Go to the moves section of chat and get PGN from there

Avatar of Guolin

Yeah, I just copied and pasted the PGN from your game, lol. The way I showed you is how the machine got the PGN itself, and how you should get PGN from an OTB game.

Avatar of redevil_buska

Thanks.

Avatar of BadGambit

Here is a step by step guide for posting your games using PGN files, click on the picture below to go directly to the guide: