Hey Benedictine. Try this software, DiagramTransfer 3.0.1
http://alain.blaisot.free.fr/DiagTransfer/English/home.htm
Help with Games Editor and FEN
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That's that was useful for copying, handy little tool!
Most programs will accept pasting of a FEN string to set up a position. For example, if you have a text file with 100 fen positions you can open it in a text editor, select a string, and then go paste that into a program and the FEN position will show up.
In general FEN is for storing positions and PGN for string games. However, PGN does allow a FEN to be embedded so you can have a PGN with positions and moves stored so the line is a little blurry.
Any way, FEN has no move information provided, while PGNs can.
Thanks. Yes what I have been doing is getting the PGN I want, pasting that into games editor on here. From there I click along until I get to the postion I want. I then used the tool above to trace and trace the position to it. On the tool you can then click a button to copy the FEN. I then paste that FEN back into games editor. It sounds troublesome but it is actually quite quick to do once you've got the hang of it. From there I make the moves I want and copy the new PGN. I can then paste that PGN into Lucaschess or in whatever program I want, Winboard etc and it then starts from the exact position. From there I can save it to a file of my choice.
I also think it is possible to just store all the new PGNs on one notepad and upload them all together into Winboard to create a game list. This list can then be uploaded as one into say Lucaschess.
It all might sound like a lot of trouble, and I have spent the last two days fiddling with it, but I think it will be worth it in the long run. Currently I am building three personal databases, one is the collection of key positions, according to Lev, well I have completed that one, as all the PGNs are together. Another file is my own personal game errors, missed tactics, improved lines etc, that I am taking and saving from each game and the last one is a select opening database, where I am currently looking at one particular line of the Two Knights Defense and copy and pasting from master games.
These stores mean that I am repeat key tactcis, my own errors and an opening line/s of my choice. I will also build up other areas such as mates/endgames etc.
Here is the spin off thread if anyone else is interested:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pattern-recognition-of-key-positions
Thanks again Lrmall and to everyone else who helped me out, it has been an interested couple of days!
I'm going around in circles a little here If anyone can help? I want to get to a position in one of my games for example 10 moves in. I want to be able to set up the board from that position and then save it and import it elsewhere (into Winboard). Just recording a few moves not the whole game. I have the PGN and the FEN for this. Is there any way I can paste in the PGN and then get to the position I want without having to set the board up by hand?