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Portable Game Notation Data

Description (in English):
PGN file is a Portable Game Notation Data. Portable Game Notation (PGN) is the most popular standard for the representation of chess games. PGN is designed for ease of reading and writing by humans as well as computer programs. The files below are available for download, completely free.

MIME Type: application / x-chess-pgn

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Other types of files may also use the file extension .pgn.

The .pgn file extension is often given incorrectly!

According to Search on our site, these were the most common typos in the past year:

pgm , pgb , gpn , pvn , prn, pn, pfn, lgn, pyn, ptn, png, phn, pgh, pg, pbn

Is it possible that the filename extension is incorrect?

We found the following similar file extensions in our database:

Can't open a .pgn file?

When you double-click a file to open it, Windows checks the file name extension. If Windows recognizes the file name extension, the file opens in the program associated with that file name extension. When Windows does not recognize the file name extension, the following message appears:

Windows cannot open this file:

Example.pgn

To open this file, Windows needs to know which program you want to use to open it ...

If you don't know how to set up file associations .pgn, check.

Can I change the file extension?

Changing the filename of the file extension is not a good idea. When you change the file extension, you change the way the program on your computer reads the file. The problem is that changing the file extension does not change the file format.

In a note on the chess topic, I mentioned that recognizing a chess diagram is exactly how chess chart- not an easy task. But if the party already recorded in your electronic form, for example, in a very widespread PGN format, then the task of obtaining a "live" game that can be scrolled and tracked along the moves becomes very simple and does not require programming knowledge from you (unless the basic skills of a webmaster or blogger).

There is no need to reinvent the bicycle, just use the excellent site pgn4web.casaschi.net and go to the board generator section on it (direct link)

It is now very easy to create an interactive chess game based on a PGN file.

Find on the page a greenish window under the heading chess games notation in PGN format, insert the code of the "bastard" PGN into this window, for example, here is my recent masterpiece (not mine, of course, a classic, it's just that the opponent was better than me):

1.e2e4 c7c6 2.d2d4 d7d5 3. Nb1c3 d5xe4 4. Nc3xe4 Nb8d7 5. Qd1e2 Ng8f6 6. Ne4d6 # 1-0

Unfortunately, the script will not understand Russian comments in curly braces (...), even if they are encoded in Unicode (UTF-8), but the viewer will show them normally.

Then go through the rest of the settings, setting the options as you like. Minimum enough is this:

  • set a suitable template for the type of board and figures in the list of templates;
  • select the autoplay games = none setting in the game replay options section (so that it does not play by itself);
  • adjust the height of the game window (web page options, iFrame height, recommended minimum and maximum values ​​are written);
  • click the "generate HTML codes and update preview" button.

You will see what happened and the embed code for the website or blog in the tag