Chess Forum PGN Viewer (Manual)

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To use the PGN viewer to display chess games on this forum, you have to wrap the PGN data in your post in [PGN] tags. In the advanced editor window you can find a little icon on the left side of the tag bar which creates those tags when you click on it. You can first select the text you want to wrap in those tags and then you click on that icon.

Example of a PGN chess game:

[Event "IBM Kasparov vs. Deep Blue Rematch"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1997.05.11"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Deep Blue"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6
6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6 8.Nxe6 Qe7 9.O-O fxe6 10.Bg6+ Kd8 {Kasparov shakes his head}
11.Bf4 b5 12.a4 Bb7 13.Re1 Nd5 14.Bg3 Kc8 15.axb5 cxb5 16.Qd3 Bc6 17.Bf5 exf5
18.Rxe7 Bxe7 19.c4 1-0

How this PGN game will be displayed when it is wrapped into [PGN] tags:

[Event "IBM Kasparov vs. Deep Blue Rematch"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1997.05.11"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Deep Blue"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6
6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6 8.Nxe6 Qe7 9.O-O fxe6 10.Bg6+ Kd8 {Kasparov shakes his head}
11.Bf4 b5 12.a4 Bb7 13.Re1 Nd5 14.Bg3 Kc8 15.axb5 cxb5 16.Qd3 Bc6 17.Bf5 exf5
18.Rxe7 Bxe7 19.c4 1-0



The PGN meta tags that are displayed by the viewer are:
Site, Event, Date, Round, White, Black, Result. Everything else is ignored.

Homepage of the pgn4web (PGN viewer) project: http://pgn4web.casaschi.net/

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Few more details about the pgn4web tool.

You can interact with the chessboard using the keyboard and clicking with the mouse on the chessboard squares. If you click on the top right square (H8 if White is on bottom) an help file popup shows more details.

The chessboard allows for games starting from non-standard positions using the FEN tag, for example:

[White "white to move"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rn2r1k1/ppq2pb1/2pp2pp/8/2PQn1b1/1PN2NP1/PB3PBP/3RR1K1 w - - 0 1"]

1. Qxg7 Kxg7 2. Nd5 Kf8 3. Nxc7

[White "white to move"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rn2r1k1/ppq2pb1/2pp2pp/8/2PQn1b1/1PN2NP1/PB3PBP/3RR1K1 w - - 0 1"]

1. Qxg7 Kxg7 2. Nd5 Kf8 3. Nxc7


The chessboard also allows for more than one game being shown, with a dropdown menu to pick your choice:

[Event "World championship"] 
[Site "Moscow URS"] 
[Date "1985.10.15"] 
[Round "16"] 
[White "Karpov"] 
[Black "Kasparov"] 
[Result "0-1"] 
 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8. 
Na3 d5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. exd5 Nb4 11. Be2 Bc5 12. O-O O-O 13. Bf3 Bf5 14. 
Bg5 Re8 15. Qd2 b5 16. Rad1 Nd3 17. Nab1 h6 18. Bh4 b4 19. Na4 Bd6 20. Bg3 
Rc8 21. b3 g5 22. Bxd6 Qxd6 23. g3 Nd7 24. Bg2 Qf6 25. a3 a5 26. axb4 axb4 
27. Qa2 Bg6 28. d6 g4 29. Qd2 Kg7 30. f3 Qxd6 31. fxg4 Qd4+ 32. Kh1 Nf6 33. 
Rf4 Ne4 34. Qxd3 Nf2+ 35. Rxf2 Bxd3 36. Rfd2 Qe3 37. Rxd3 Rc1 38. Nb2 Qf2 
39. Nd2 Rxd1+ 40. Nxd1 Re1+ 0-1 
 
[Event "World championship"] 
[Site "Moscow URS"] 
[Date "1985.10.03"] 
[Round "12"] 
[White "Karpov"] 
[Black "Kasparov"] 
[Result "1/2-1/2"] 
 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8. 
Na3 d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. cxd5 Nb4 11. Bc4 Bg4 12. Be2 Bxe2 13. Qxe2+ Qe7 14. 
Be3 Nbxd5 15. Nc2 Nxe3 16. Nxe3 Qe6 17. O-O Bc5 18. Rfe1 O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "World championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1985.10.15"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Karpov"]
[Black "Kasparov"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8.
Na3 d5 9. cxd5 exd5 10. exd5 Nb4 11. Be2 Bc5 12. O-O O-O 13. Bf3 Bf5 14.
Bg5 Re8 15. Qd2 b5 16. Rad1 Nd3 17. Nab1 h6 18. Bh4 b4 19. Na4 Bd6 20. Bg3
Rc8 21. b3 g5 22. Bxd6 Qxd6 23. g3 Nd7 24. Bg2 Qf6 25. a3 a5 26. axb4 axb4
27. Qa2 Bg6 28. d6 g4 29. Qd2 Kg7 30. f3 Qxd6 31. fxg4 Qd4+ 32. Kh1 Nf6 33.
Rf4 Ne4 34. Qxd3 Nf2+ 35. Rxf2 Bxd3 36. Rfd2 Qe3 37. Rxd3 Rc1 38. Nb2 Qf2
39. Nd2 Rxd1+ 40. Nxd1 Re1+ 0-1

[Event "World championship"]
[Site "Moscow URS"]
[Date "1985.10.03"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Karpov"]
[Black "Kasparov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8.
Na3 d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. cxd5 Nb4 11. Bc4 Bg4 12. Be2 Bxe2 13. Qxe2+ Qe7 14.
Be3 Nbxd5 15. Nc2 Nxe3 16. Nxe3 Qe6 17. O-O Bc5 18. Rfe1 O-O 1/2-1/2


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