What happened to some of my games? How can I save them to my laptop?

I went back and looked at all my previous games as I like to recall how I played when I started playing for the Geezer group team.

The Geezer group is for member that are over 50 years old and up. If you fit, I invite you to join us we are about 100 in the group and we play a lot of games.

http://www.chess.com/groups/home/geezers

I went back and looked at my all my previous games but they only go back to May 14, 2012. That was my first match for the group. The other games prior to that are gone. I wonder what happened to them? There are only about eight of them missing. Here is the link:

http://www.chess.com/home/my_archive

I'd like to save the games into my laptop and be able to play them later in life, or even post the in my Memoir web-page that I have created for my family to view.

Any suggestion from any one that has done that. Is there a program that I can download to copy and play them?

I am a little puzzled about my rating. I have lost three games and all the others are wins.

The longer games over thirty five moves, I have lost, since it takes patience to play those games. I like the quick games better. I dislike positional games, but I am learning slowly.

I decided when games get boring and they need to get going, I am going to swap evenly or even to sacrifice a knight or bishop to open up the games. If I sacrifice a Knight and take a pawn the points I am down is only two and that would be worth it to me. It might even shock the opponent that I would do that.

Thanks for reading and if you comment.

When you view your games, there is an option on the right called "Get PGN."  If you click this, you can save your game as a .PGN file (to save it to a specific location on your desktop, right click and select "save link as")  All a .PGN file is, is a text file that is formatted in a way that it can be recognized and imported by other chess programs like chessmaster, etc.  In fact, if your computer doesn't recognize the type of file, you can select to open it with notepad and the game's notation should be there.  

Hope this helps!

I will give that a try. I still will have to get a program to run the pgn files and find a way to put it in a web page.  THANKS

Any ideas which? Your stats show you've played 25 turn based, 3 of those were back in 2010

Denver - I can see some older ones in your archive. I tried selecting all and getting the PGN and your old ones do show up there - message me if you don't have any luck and I'll forward it to you in e-mail.

You don't need any additional software DENVERHIGH !

Once you have a .pgn file in Notepad (any text-editor will do), you can copy & paste it into the Game Editor on this site.  Then you can view the game & add additional moves/variations or annotation if you want to.
There's also a way to embed a game-diagram into other web pages (I think) but I havn't tried doing that so don't know how well it works.

Edit:  Just tried using the embed function & embedded a diagram into a webpage of mine & it works perfectly ! 

If you're not familiar with Game Editor just follow this link:-

http://www.chess.com/analysis-board-editor

Select the Game Editor option tab, then it's fairly self-explanatory but if you decide you need more information to use it, post a comment here & I'll send you what I've got.

P.S.  When opening one of your downloaded .pgn files in your text editor, remember to set the 'File Types' option to 'All Files' !   Otherwise you won't be able to see any .pgn extension files.

Hi Hohai

Hope you aren't working too hard. Sorry that you  had to resign from the tournament. 

I don't know what "turn base" is. But I am happy with the twenty that I can see.  Because they start on MAY 14, 2012.  The other ones are too old and I wasn't really playing CHESS.
Thanks for your comment.

Hi Metastable

                            Thanks for your help....... Guys

Hi Stephen:

That is excellent advice you gave me. I went to the editor and I had never been there before. I am sure it will work for me. I will try the embed on my web page and see if it works for me.

I appreciate you taking the time to ry it. Bye for now.

If you're not familiar with Game Editor just follow this link:-

http://www.chess.com/analysis-board-editor