Free (or lowish cost) PGN viewer?

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DanielGuel

Hey everyone. I know I've probably posted stuff like this in the past, though is there a good/reliable PGN viewer you guys would recommend?

I'm a broke college student, so I can't afford Chessbase (even though people tell me I "need" it). I've been using SCID vs. PC/Mac, but I just don't really care for it.

Thanks, guys!

Coach_Kashchei

For what reason you need pgn viewer?

For example, you can open pgns here, on chess.com: Learn-->Analysis-->Load pgn

DanielGuel

My coach sends me homework in the form of a PGN file. What chess.com can do is load up a PGN copy, which is not quite what I need. Understood? happy.png

RevRuckus

I use tarrash on my PC and Analyze this Free on mobile

DaniilKalabukhov

You can download Stockfish (which is free) on your mac and it has pgn viewer, which looks like IDE. If you aren't going to be satisfied with that - try to download pirate ChessBase copy (if you can't afford to buy it). Also there are a lot of free programs, just search for them.

I used to have "illegal" ChessBase but it was something like CB11 or so... It also didn't have a proper engine and a database. So I manually installed them from third party resources. It was really ugly but it somehow worked.

jonz94

Get Chessbase

DanielGuel
jonz94 wrote:

Get Chessbase

Buy ChessBase for me happy.png

st0ckfish

There is also a PGN viewer on chess.com, on lich**s, and of course, on chessbase.

https://www.chess.com/analysis 

st0ckfish
MiddlegamerUmesh wrote:

Also, you can open a pgn file with a text editor and copy-paste each pgn into 1 chapter of a lichess study. That way, you can save your moves/analysis for later as well.

Coach_Kashchei

Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.

DanielGuel

Is Chess Assistant available for Mac?

Coach_Kashchei
pfren wrote:
50kg έγραψε:

Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.

 

No, it isn't. Chess Assistant (also commercial) and SCID vs PC miss very little, if anything, to Chessbase.

Ok. I just know almost nothing about Chess Assistant...

jonz94

I have a Macbook Pro as well. It doesn't support chessbase so just download stockfish on the app store. it reads pgns.

DaniilKalabukhov
pfren wrote:
50kg έγραψε:

Just my curiosity. How coach can work without chessbase? I thought that this is "must have" software.

No, it isn't. Chess Assistant (also commercial) and SCID vs PC miss very little, if anything, to Chessbase.

The board in CA looks really ugly. This is a huge disadvantage if a user wants to create videos or take screenshots in order to make diagrams. Anyway CA's interface looks like a Windows-95 program.

chesssky2
EOGuel wrote:
jonz94 wrote:

Get Chessbase

Buy ChessBase for me

pirate chessbase