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PGN chess player software?

PGN chess player software?

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FREE. no $$$ programs please. All I want is a simple program to input PGN and it will play the moves for study on the computer.

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Try winboard:

http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html

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for a GUI use Arena
http://www.playwitharena.com/

then get a free engine like fruit or whatever you want.
in arena import the engine EXEcutable and you're ready to go.
Then you just open the pgn with arena and do whatever you want.

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Winboard is excellent - paste in the pgn - edit the games - copy
the fen etc - also much better than that 'analysis tool' for choosing
quick moves whilst at work.

I can copy a pgn from here and post a position from the game within
seconds as I did on here a few threads ago.

The diagram I can vouch for - the analysis..... 😕

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Yeah, Winboard and Arena are good choices. Even simpler is Chesspad, although it's limited to only Winboard engines.

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


Another suggestion is Scid, although Scid has so many features that you might think it's getting too far away from the "simple" concept.

Links for Scid:
http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/
http://scid.sourceforge.net/
http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html

As a side note, I was recently finishing up my study of Pandolfini's Endgame Course book. I found a PGN file of the book on the internet, so I pulled up the PGN file in Scid so I wouldn't have to waste time setting up the positions on a board. Well, I had recently reinstalled my 5-piece Nalimov endgame tablebase onto my PC - And I was scanning the Scid options and found out if you give Scid the path to the Nalimov files, it will automatically spit out tablebase info any time it sees a position covered by the tablebase files. How cool is that? (Keep in mind that you don't have to have an analysis engine running - Scid gives you this tablebase info directly through the GUI.)

I found that this tablebase capability was useful for "what if" moves. And since over 90 percent of the positions in the book were 5 pieces or less, it really came in handy for this book.