Free chess viewer/pgn editor

enrico20

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13 Mar 12 22:20

enrico20

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Joined: 25 Apr 08
Moves: 3102

13 Mar 12 22:20

I saw a post where greenpawn said he uses penguin chess editor. Are there any other free ones? I didn't see screenshots of penguin, can anyone compare it to Winboard/others?

enrico20

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Joined: 25 Apr 08
Moves: 3102

14 Mar 12 19:20

No reply? Mr greenpawn...?

Wilfriedva

Joined: 21 Jan 12
Moves: 3516

14 Mar 12 20:24

I only know of chesspad

http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html

greenpawn34

Joined: 06 May 08
Moves: 44439

14 Mar 12 22:02

Hi enrico20

I only just saw this post (I do log off now & then).

I saw that other lad's post and I went and got version 2.0.2 of Chesspad.
This is good. I have tried it four times. It works no problem.

It toiled at first but I went into preferences, game display, display settings
and unticked all the boxes. Perfect.

OK I'm now a Chesspad man. The Penguin can waddle away.

Cheers Wilf. That's a pint I owe you.

enrico20

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Joined: 25 Apr 08
Moves: 3102

15 Mar 12 07:26

Nice one Wilfriedva and greenpawn. I will have a look at Chesspad. I was a bit sceptical of penguin because I could not even see a screenshot.

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

16 Mar 12 14:29

Originally posted by enrico20
Nice one Wilfriedva and greenpawn. I will have a look at Chesspad. I was a bit sceptical of penguin because I could not even see a screenshot.

Screen shots of Penguin (and the program) can be found here:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dashstofsk/penguin.html

Ditto of Chesspad are here:
http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html

Personally, in keeping with the KISS principle referred to in another thread, I still use Chesspad 1. I don't quite remember right now what I didn't like as much about Chesspad 2, but I do recall that it just did more than I want it to do.

Richard

hedonist

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Joined: 15 Jan 11
Moves: 13975

16 Mar 12 16:45

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Personally, in keeping with the KISS principle referred to in another thread, I still use Chesspad 1. I don't quite remember right now what I didn't like as much about Chesspad 2, but I do recall that it just did more than I want it to do.

Richard

Thats the problem with new versions of software. The programers get it right first time then try to justify their pay by adding bells n whistles to a new version.

I still get mistyeyed thinking back to windows98.