Scan PGN Notation in Chess Books

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mohhsen67

Reading chess books are boring for me because of pgn notations. Is the any android software to scan pgn notations and import into chess.com android chess app?

DrFrank124c

What I do is I look at the information about the game and look up the game in a database. The pgn in the database can them be downloaded and used in my own app. For example Raizman vs. Bobotsov, 1958--Munich. The best free online database is at http://www.365chess.com  

mohhsen67
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mohhsen67
DrFrank124c wrote:

What I do is I look at the information about the game and look up the game in a database. The pgn in the database can them be downloaded and used in my own app. For example Raizman vs. Bobotsov, 1958--Munich. The best free online database is at http://www.365chess.com  

 

If there was an app to scan the pgn from book and import into the chess.com app or other apps, do you think that you used it or you prefer your old way?

nigelnorris
DrFrank124c wrote:

What I do is I look at the information about the game and look up the game in a database. The pgn in the database can them be downloaded and used in my own app. For example Raizman vs. Bobotsov, 1958--Munich. The best free online database is at http://www.365chess.com  

Or you can just look it up here:

https://www.chess.com/games/view/84158

DrFrank124c

I do use the chess.com games explorer most of the time. I mentioned chess365 because you would be more likely to find what you are looking for there since it is  supposedly the largest online database. I think my method is the easiest to use but if someone came up with an app that would work with my Linux Ubuntu computer I would check it out. If you want to scan from a book you could use a book scanner like this http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box. It seems to me you would then use an OCR to read the text into your program.  If the book text were in Descriptive Notation not Algebraic you would then need to translate it. So I think my method is the best way. 

DrFrank124c

Also u could try downloading the PGN for an entire book  from the internet. One source of this is http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1002219

Another source is http://www.gambitchess.com/semi/db1.htm