Hello bondiggity,
You should see a link on the game archive page to download ALL of your available games into PGN (at the bottom of http://www.chess.com/home/my_archive.html )
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Indeed, but upon clicking that link, nothing happens for me (Well my browser goes into "thinking" mode, so its not coding or anything, but its just wont download). I'm wondering if is it because it's too big? I mainly use safari but I tried firefox to make sure it wasn't my browser, and to no avail.
Bump. I'm having the exact same problem and it is bothering me!
RC_Woods: I just ended up going to my archive and doing it page by page. Just click select all and download pgn. Does it 50 at a time, and I finished relatively quickly.
RainbowRising: I really don't think its that big a deal erasing ratings. With our Glicko RD's reset, it wont take long to get back to exactly where you were. As far as the games are concerned, I see your point. However it wasn't that big a hassle to just import them into SCID so I wont be too vocal about it.
RR, I still maintain that you don't need to review your games more than once.
As to downloading the PGN's, doing it page-by-page should sort out download issues... not too much hassle.
This is only going to happen once. All of your completed games happened in the Beta version of live chess. You have to understand that usually nothing in beta gets saved, it's just a test run. This is true for all such things.
You have the opportunity to download the PGN's, and there are free programs you can download to view the games... I fail to see the issue.
So it seems that the new Live Chess is coming in soon? and with that, it seems that the ratings as well as all the old games will be wiped.
So I figured, might as well just download the pgns (just in case I ever want them). So I go to my archive, sort by live games and click Download All My Games in One PGN that is found on the bottom of the page. However since I have so many games (I'm assuming), this doesn't work so well (at all). Is there any way to get this to work, or do I have to go page by page (for 58 pages) if I want to get all the pgn's?