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Best way to get RHP games in .PGN format?

Best way to get RHP games in .PGN format?

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I would like to be able to enter my games here into my Chessmaster program. I have tried the email function, but it just sends me the moves list in the body of the email. I don't know how to enter the moves into Chessmaster or any other program without matching the moves in the program and then analyzing. Is there a quicker way to get our moves list in .pgn format?
thanks,
tony

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Just copy and paste the moves straight into the pgn file. To create a png file right click on your desktop/new/text document, then save it as blahblah.pgn.

I'm not sure if the email function on RHP includes the header, so just put this at the beginning if it isn't already there.

[Event ""]
[Site "Red Hot Pawn"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Smith"]
[Black "Smith"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount ""]

1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6 etc...

A ply is each seperate move, so a 30 move game would be 60 ply.

Or you could do what i do and enter each move as the game progresses. So each time i jump on to RHP i open my rhp database and enter the moves. This way i can keep notes in the program and never forget what I was planning.

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Thanks a bunch!
Now I can find out why I am 2-4. 🙂

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Thanks again. It worked great. I did have to insert the PlyCount into the language, and hit enter after everother move to get them to all fall on different lines.

Word of warning, Chessmaster likes castling notation to be uppercase O-O instead of lowercase. o-o
tony

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No worries.


By the way, the moves don't have to be on seperate lines. It looks neater that way, but the program still understand them as long as theres a space between each move.