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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 file types may also use the file extension .pgn.
The .pgn file extension is often given incorrectly!
According to Search on our site, these typos were the most common 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?
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Can't open .pgn file?
When you double-click a file to open it, Windows checks the file name extension. If Windows recognizes the filename extension, the file opens in the program that is associated with that filename extension. When Windows does not recognize the filename 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 .
Is it possible to change the file extension?
Changing the file name of the file extension is not a good idea. When you change the file extension, you change the way programs on your computer read the file. The problem is that changing the file extension does not change the file format.
In a note on the topic of chess, I mentioned that to recognize a chess diagram exactly as chess diagram is not an easy task. But if the party already recorded in electronic form, for example, in the 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 (except perhaps the basic skills of a webmaster or blogger).
There is no need to reinvent the wheel, just use the excellent site pgn4web.casaschi.net and go to the board generator section on it (direct link)
Now it's very easy to make an interactive chess game based on a PGN file.
Find a greenish window on the page 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, just my opponent was much more "skilled" 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 in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding, but the viewer will display them normally.
Then go through the rest of the settings, setting the options as you like. The minimum is enough:
- set a suitable template for the type of board and figures in the templates list;
- 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 window with the game (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 code for embedding on a website or blog in the tag