Hello Mr.
VinceCarter,
A PGN file (Portable
Game Notation) is nothing
more than an
ASCII text file which can be
made with any text editor such as Notepad,
WordPad, MS Word, etc.
All you have to do is to type text on any text editor following
an easy text format as shown below:
[Event "USA Ch. final"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1997.09.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Christiansen, L."]
[Black "Benjamin, J."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "2550"]
[BlackElo "2580"]
[PlyCount "100"]
1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. Qd2 Bg4
7. O-O-O c6 8. Bh6 Qa5 9. Kb1 Nbd7 10. Be2 e5 11. Bxg7 Kxg7
12. h3 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 b5 14. g4 Nb6 15. h4 Nc4 16. Qc1 Rab8
17. dxe5 dxe5 18. h5 Ng8 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. Be2 Rfd8 21.
Bxc4 bxc4 22. Rxd8 Qxd8 23. f4 Qd4 24. Ka1 exf4 25. Qxf4 Re8
26. a3 Qe5 27. Qe3 Re7 28. g5 a5 29. Ka2 Re6 30. Rh4 Re8
31. Rh1 Ne7 32. Rf1 Nf5 33. Qf2 Nd6 34. Qf6+ Qxf6 35. Rxf6 Nxe4
36. Nxe4 Rxe4 37. Rxc6 Re5 38. Rxc4 Rxg5 39. b4 axb4
40. axb4 f5 41. b5 f4 42. Rc7+ Kf6 43. b6 Ra5+ 44. Kb3 Rb5+
45. Kc4 Rxb6 46. Kd4 Kf5 47. Kd3 Re6 48. Rf7+ Kg4 49. c4 f3
50. c5 Kg3 0-1
Some parameters at the beginning of this example (inside
brackets) are optional and can be excluded from the PGN file.
As a practice, make yourself a PGN file: Highligh
with your mouse the above PGN text,
from the "[Event..." first line of text
to the last "0-1" letters. Next, copy it to your
clipboard memory by right clicking the
selected text and choosing "copy" from the
submenu prompt (CTRL + the letter C
also copies it).
Now, open any of your favorite text
editor (Notepad,
WordPad, etc.) and
paste the memory content onto a blank page (CTRL + V
pastes it). All you have to do next is
to save the file as text (default) and
give it the name you wish. Last, manually
rename the .txt extension of your file to .pgn.
The result is a PGN file which can now be read by any PGN
viewer.
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