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| onlygb 11/12/2004 04:47:42 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: PGN Viewer Message: Does anyone know of a good (free) PGN viewer that will allow me to review my downloaded games off line? Windows Also, I'm not interested in that PGN Screen saver program. Thanks in advance for your help. |
| bucklehead 11/12/2004 06:27:15 [ report this post ] | The best free all-in-one Message: Has got to be WinBoard at www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html . Comes with a free (though fairly weak) chess engine you can use for analysis, though you can set it up to use whatever engine you want. You can even use this as your interface on a bunch of live chess online sites. But at a basic level, as a PGN viewer and basic annotator, you can't go wrong. |
| onlygb 11/12/2004 07:29:41 [ report this post ] | Message: Thanks! I'll give it a shot. |
| bonsai 11/12/2004 07:40:45 [ report this post ] | Message: Chessbase Light would also do the job. |
| premium_steve 11/12/2004 15:11:13 [ report this post ] | winboard Message: i can't get this to work.... i downloaded both xboard and winboard, but when i click on the winboard.exe file, i receive the following message in a grey box (always bad ;)) -- "16 bit windows subsystem the system file is not suitable for running msdos and microsoft windows applications." nothing ever works for me. no matter which interfaces and databases i try downloading, legal & illegal, i never get anything working. i'm just so stupid. AARGHHH! *bangs on keyboard* |
| bucklehead 11/12/2004 16:55:36 [ report this post ] | There are lots of choices Message: Can't speak to the WinBoard difficulty--it works perfectly for me. I seem to remember there being several WinBoard forums somewhere, if you wanted to work at it. Otherwise, there are a million free PGN viewers out there, and I'm sure at least one will work for you: *Chessopolis lets you download an old freeware program called CDB which is actually pretty good: chessopolis.com/cdb-1_5.exe *There is a "lite" version of ChessBase at www.chessbase.com/download/cblight/index.asp *ChessPad ( www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html ) is fairly no-frills but does have the nice feature of letting you export a diagram as a bitmap. Or maybe I'm the only one who thinks that's nice. *SCID ( scid.sourceforge.net/ ) is a full-fledged database program, but can also be used as a simple PGN reader. It's got lots of features but I find it really difficult to use. *I just ran into Jose ( jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ ) today, and it looks OK. Its thing is that it offers a 3D board, but not a fantastic one. Chessopolis has links to a bunch of others that I have no experience with: chessopolis.com/software.htm . At a minimum, this is a page of great links. |
| premium_steve 11/12/2004 19:45:20 [ report this post ] | cool.... cool.... Message: thanks :) i'll have a go at some of them now. |
| theprez98 11/14/2004 02:33:01 [ report this post ] | chesspad Message: I like ChessPad, free, and easy to use. |
| autumnbreeze 11/14/2004 06:17:28 [ report this post ] | I use Chess Cat Message: available from www.pgn.freeservers.com/chesscat.html Have u found one which you like onlygb? Chessmaster 9000 etc lets you import PGN games also. :) |
| onlygb 11/14/2004 07:16:13 [ report this post ] | Chess Cat is what I needed Message: Big thanks autumbreeze. Chess Cat is exactly what I was looking for. |
| bucklehead 11/15/2004 07:10:31 [ report this post ] | I must say... Message: ...that I am very impressed with ChessCat--it's no-nonsense, easy to use, and offers a strong list of features for a free program. I think I may have to make this my front-line tool for annotating my own games. Thanks for the tip, autumbreeze ! |
| wulebgr 11/19/2004 20:43:00 [ report this post ] | Winboard is great, but Message: it is now superceded by Arena: www.playwitharena.co.uk/ |
| baseline 11/21/2004 18:54:52 [ report this post ] | look at this one Message: the chess assistant lite version ,free and if you download crafty with it an analysis engine and chess playing program. |
| sspiroff 11/23/2004 13:04:36 [ report this post ] | Screen saver? Message: Are there any free PGN screen savers? I googled around a bit, but could only find shareware programs - which, I certainly don't mind paying for if they're well written, but if there are any free ones, I'd prefer that. |
| theprez98 11/25/2004 00:16:59 [ report this post ] | ChessPad Message: I forgot to post the url for ChessPad: www.wmlsoftware.com/ Free, and easy to use. Also, compatible with Crafty and similar chess engines. I've used a number of PGN viewers over the years and found this to be the easiest to use. Also allows you to save variations, alternate lines, etc. |
| gambiter 1/24/2005 02:31:11 [ report this post ] | chesscat Message: Im impressed with chesscat. Its easy to use and simple. |
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