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oldfarmer@my-deja.com wrote:

> > >   Can anyone save me some time and tell me how to get algebraic
> > >notation text files from the PGN files of gnu/winboard etc? i.e.
> > >printouts, for later study, of your games against gnu or of games
> > >viewed with the winboard gameviewer?
> >
> >   PGN filed are already in algebraic notation, so saving just the game
> > you're interested in to its own PGN file would probably do. Don't know
> > if winboard can copy game score to clipboard, but if it can that would
> > probably work as well.
>
> Winboard and gnu chess came together in a package and winboard has the
> same gui interface for both. You can save games you play against the
> computer and view PGN games but so far I can only see the games played
> out in movie fasion and then you can scroll back/forwards move by move.
> The move is shown in algebraic notation at the top of the screen, but
> what I'm after is to get a printout/text file, in algerbraic notation,
> of the entire game, in the same way you would see one in a magazine.

He assumed that you allready knew how to save the games with Winboard, but
it appears that you probably don't. What you need to do is when the game is
finished, go to the File pulldown menu and click on Save. Then save the file
as a pgn file type. If you want to view the moves in the pgn file in text
form then you can open it with the Notepad or the Wordpad or with very large
pgn files that are too large for those you can use the Dos editor.

In Windows 95 I associate the pgn file type with the Wordpad program, but in
Windows 3.1 I associate the pgn filetype with Windows 95's Dos editor
because it's better than the one that comes with dos 6.22 and opens very
large files.

He's right though, Chessbase LT is quite good but somewhat confusing. It
sounds to me like from what you're saying now that you'd be best to stick
with Winboard and the Wordpad program that comes with Windows, but that's
only my opinion.

Pete

>
>
> >   If you're looking for a way to get a formatted score from the PGN
> > game, try some more advanced PGN viewer.  ChessBase Light (demo from
> > www.chessbase.com) might be able to do it.
>
> OK, you have given me a few ideas to try here, thanks.
>
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