Don't you have a web browser? You can do a lot more on the web version of chess.com.
Was just thinking the same thing - chess.com is better on the desktop. But. I'm not a fan of being tied to my desk and a laptop. I prefer iPad and phone... Prefer to be more fluid with where I read, work and chess. In the chess ecosystem, perhaps I am in the minority?
Don't you have a web browser? You can do a lot more on the web version of chess.com.
Was just thinking the same thing - chess.com is better on the desktop. But. I'm not a fan of being tied to my desk and a laptop. I prefer iPad and phone... Prefer to be more fluid with where I read, work and chess. In the chess ecosystem, perhaps I am in the minority?
I'm afraid so.
Any tips on wading through and finding the right pgn in a sea of text files?
I'll look up a master game here, then see if it has a complete PGN at chessgames.com (meaning the date is all filled in, there's also a date for the event itself, the round is in there, stuff like that). If it does, then I go for that one. My method for finding them here is to assign a color to the person I'm searching on, then search on them winning that color, then sort the list on the left according to the highest rating of the other color. That will give you the person you want playing their toughest opponents. Between the two sites, the PGN headers should be pretty complete. Just copy and paste, and fill in the values if you need to. It's just a text file. As long as you follow the format and save it with the PGN extension, that's all you need. I put the names in the format:
year-month-day-whiteplayer-blackplayer-city
That way it sorts neatly in the folder.
You can use an excellent piece of free software: Tarrasch. It is a chess GUI and very user friendly.
Available at https://www.triplehappy.com
No J, just in a regular folder for now but I'm gonna go OCD on them all soon and have various folders with chess icons on them for different games ie, best voted classic games, historical master games (before we used computers), all the top GM's (past and present) best games, WCC, Womens WCC, etc.
But I'm sure there's someone on here with a cooler system...........I hope!
This is robust and inspiring! Thanks for sharing...
You can use an excellent piece of free software: Tarrasch. It is a chess GUI and very user friendly.
Available at https://www.triplehappy.com
I will check it out, thank you.
i use chessbase
I put mine together in a text editor and then save them to my hard drive. The moves are just the moves, but the headers are mostly from chessgames dot com, although they're often missing the Elo numbers, and so I add those in from chess dot com. It's just copying and pasting. If it's an annotated PGN, then I go to lichess dot org, import it, and then download the raw PGN, to remove the annotations. It's not the kind of thing where I'll end up with a ton of them, but it feels sort of like collecting stamps.
It does sort of feel like collecting stamps!
I've been doing something similar in that I cannot annotate my games on iOS on chess.com - so I move the png to lichees to annotate and then save.
Any tips on wading through and finding the right pgn in a sea of text files?
Don't you have a web browser? You can do a lot more on the web version of chess.com.