Is there a way to show resignation in a PGN?

Hi. I know you can show resignation with 1-0 or 0-1 (depending on the winner) but is there a symbol or something I can put in my PGN so the resignation flag is shown and that it's clear that the game ended with a player resigning?

Just add a comment after the last move.

alright, thanks

There’s a proper way of doing it. If you’re on analysis board, go to —> details —> any result and change it to 1-0 or 0-1

{Black resigns} 1-0

Every game where someone loses but no checkmate occurs, ends by a resignation. Just look at the last move and see if there is the special checkmate character.

{Black timed out} 1-0

You could also have said Black forfeits because of illegal move/cheating detection/misbehaviour etc

Yes, those are other possibilities.

he asked about showing resignation via PGN you just said how add commentary. 2 different things. You dont need comment to show who won score is enough but making white flag like at game you just had is harder it seems.

Assume you want to show Black wins by resignation, and flag appears on the White king.

Open Analysis Board.

Go to Details, and change No Result to Black Won, and another result section below (which probably says White Won) to Black Won by resignation.

That should work. Just include the method of ending while writing the result in game details.

it will just say 0-1 theres no PGN "code" for resignation or any other result it just give score

PGN files support commentary. That’s the usual way to show the nature of the win.

However, I have noticed this website adding a great many more lines in the header that appears to offer another solution.

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2024.06.14"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ziryab"]
[Black "Avinash_ChessKing"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1726"]
[BlackElo "1409"]
[TimeControl "600"]
[EndTime "22:34:16 PDT"]
[Termination "Avinash_ChessKing won by checkmate"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 a5 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Nxc6 dxc6 7. Qxd8+ Kxd8
8. e5 Nd5 9. O-O Bc5 10. Rd1 Bg4 11. Rd2 Be6 12. Nc3 Bb4 13. Bxd5 cxd5 14. a3
Bxc3 15. bxc3 Kc8 16. Re2 Ra6 17. f4 Rc6 18. Bb2 Rc4 19. Rf2 g6 20. h3 h5 21.
Rd1 c5 22. g3 Bxh3 23. Kh2 Be6 24. Rd3 h4 25. gxh4 Rxh4+ 26. Kg1 Rg4+ 27. Kf1
Rgxf4 28. Ke2 Rce4+ 29. Re3 Rxe3+ 30. Kxe3 Re4+ 31. Kd2 Rh4 32. c4 Rxc4 33. Rh2
Kd7 34. Rh8 b6 35. Ra8 Rh4 36. Ra7+ Kc6 37. Ra8 Rh2+ 38. Kd1 Bg4+ 39. Kc1 d4 40.
Rf8 Rh1+ 41. Kd2 Rd1# 0-1

Yeah, the Termination field can be adjusted to meet the requirements.

its still commentary like I said before not real notation. some analyzing soft can use tags with game data in [ ] or show your commentary in { } but some are simple and use "movetext" only.