How to put boards in posts
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Just click the diagram part of the board icon. You don't need to use PGN or FEN, just move the pieces into the sequences you want to post.
Jan 10, 2008
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Thanks Unbeliever. I understand that I don't have to use PGN, but I may want to.
PGN stands for portable game notation. It is a text based standard for representing a chess game including the moves, variations, and commentary. Any good chess program these days will output a pgn of a game. So if you analyze a game using some software and write your commentary in there, it can probably output a pgn file with all the commentary in it. Then you could paste the contents of that here at chess.com. Likewise, you can output your chess.com games as pgn from the page that lists your game archive.
No problem gwfhegel, happy to help.
Jan 20, 2008
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#7
Thanks. So it looks like I have to enter in each move by hand and I can't upload a PGN file that I already have? Also, in entering in by hand, there seems to be no way to erase an incorrect move entered in by mistake.
Thanks for the explanation because I was wondering how people did the diagrams.
You can delete incorrect moves. There is a button called "delete moves". It will delete all the moves in the current variation following the current move.
Jan 20, 2008
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#10
"I can't upload a PGN file that I already have?"
no, you don't have to upload anything. a pgn is a text file. Open it with notepad (on your computer if you use Windows - start/run/ type: notepad) or any text editor; copy the text and paste it into the appropriate place. très facile.
Jan 20, 2008
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#11
So when you put the text in it appears as a diagram? I have games in Chessbase for example that I would like to upload.
Jan 20, 2008
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#12
You don't upload. I'm sure there's a way open a game and copy the moves using Chessbase. Copy the game, and paste it into the chess.com board editor where it indicates. Someone who uses software may be able to say if copying the game into clipboard using Chessbase, copies it as a pgn. I use winboard myself for that purpose.
I noticed in the forum topic on opening traps many people put in small boards and series of moves. How is that done?
Oh I see, I think I just figured it out. You click on the board icon.
Ok, but how do you paste a PGN file in. It says to paste it in, but what do you paste in and where do you get it?