FEN - Winning Chess Tactics

Hi there,

I wondered please if anyone could help me, after an extensive search using the internet I have drawn a blank.

I am currently studying this book.

Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess Series) by Yasser Seirawan

Id like to use chess.com to work through each example, so I wondered if anyone had access to the FEN's for each of the positions or is the only option to set up the positions using the analysis board.

Hope my question makes sense, and many thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

Regards

Willy.............

Ok, many thanks for your reply.

best regards.

I agree with 2Q1C about working the problems first although the 2nd half of the book is example games where a pgn file is very handy. Whether on a real board or a screen is up to you. I say that because I don't about FEN's alone, but the pgns for Seirawans books exist, including Winning Chess Tactics, here:

http://kuldhirblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/chess-endgame-books-pgn-files.html

You could open the file in Notepad (on Windows) and strip out the FEN's for each problem.

But the file is poorly put together.  There are no titles to each diagram/notation sequence. Numbers 1-4 refer to Diagram 1, No. 5 to Diagram 2, ...No. 31 is for diagram 24, and there are pgn files within the file for each of the end-of-chapter test problems.

I haven't gotten to this tactics book yet - I'm doing Dan Heisman's Back to Basics: Tactics first, but before I do Seirawan's book I'll probably load each of the individual pgns within the pgn file into a viewer like the freebie Lucas Chess (Tools/PGN Viewer/Read PGN) or Chess King, and simultaneous open the file with Notepad.

On the first one, where it says:

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]

Ill simply change the "?" in Event to:

[Event "Diagram 1"]
and do the same for the rest.

This means going through 229 diagrams!

@MickinMD nvm, neat link

btw, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15671348/how-to-cut-several-lines-from-file-bash-unix

for splitting file

Almost forgot about csplite, csplit Yasser '/Event/' '{*}'

fancy for me to drop it somewhere?

That's excellent, thanks very much for the info, its very much appreciated.

regards

Willy..........