HOW TO MANUALLY ENTER GAME & ANALYZE IN ARENA

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Exquisite-Fairy

HAPPY Thanksgiving everyone in the States and greetings to all others!


I downloaded Arena 3.5.1 - the latest for Windows.

I play games with family members live using a chess set - the old way!  We document every move just like a tournament. 

Now I want to manually enter the moves in Arena, save the game as a png and then analyze it.

I have no clue how to get it done.

Can someone PLEASE tell me step by step, how to do this? 

EscherehcsE

Well, Arena has a decent Help file, which should help.

But to enter moves for both sides, just click on the "Edit" button in the middle of the GUI.

ActuallySleepy
If you recorded the game don’t you already have the PGN?
Exquisite-Fairy

 No, I mean old school - we recorded the moves with pen and score sheets - using algebraic notations.

I tried the edit mode, but it doesn't let me go all the way through our moves. 

The help file doesn't address this issue.  I was able to do it on BabasChess, but that app is pretty old now and hasn't been updated for anything since W7.

ActuallySleepy
Algebraic notation should type in as PGN
EscherehcsE
Exquisite-Fairy wrote:

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I tried the edit mode, but it doesn't let me go all the way through our moves. 

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It ought to let you make any legal moves. I don't suppose you're trying to make an illegal move at some point?

MrMenachem

For who, like me, finds this topic because the piece will not move.

I did a manual setup, but forgot to turn the board around while I was playing black. And the pawn did not want to move backwards. 🤣🤣🤣

Daarzyn7

For me, "Analyze" gives both players as human (therefore can manually enter moves), "Demo" gives both players as computer.

tommypeters58

I have the problem that I can't get the Set-up a Position dialogue to open... The Appearance dialogue opens, but not the Set-up. Any ideas?