Method for downloading your own games automatically

On ICC and FICS interfaces I can download games into a folder to look at later automatically.  Is there a feature like this on Chess.com to save my games in pgn format on my computer as I finish playing them?

Just view the game you want do download and next to notation you will see "Get PGN" option.

Chu Chu, that doesn't answer his question.  He wants it done automatically.

No, Chess.com doesn't have nearly as many features as ICC or FICS, and the point you bring up clearly demonstrates that.  They have no option for this, that I'm aware of.

They also don't make it easy to simply copy and paste the game either.  For example, after my games, there is a window that is still open that contains all of the moves.  But when I highlight all of the moves, and copy them into memory, I get this:

1.e4e6
2.Nf3d5
3.exd5exd5
4.d4Bg4
5.Nc3Nf6
6.Qe2+Be7
7.h3Bh5
8.g4Bg6
9.Ne5Nbd7
10.Bf4c6
etc., etc.

What is up with that?  That's terrible.  Chess GUIs can't read that without editing it.

If you go into your profile you can click the GAMES tab and click VIEW and then click VIEW PGN... and do this for each game... and you can see the PGN that way.   But that's a lot of clicking.

I also remember having Chess.com e-mail me a bunch of my games in pgn format.  Ha!  As I recall, it wasn't pgn format.  They e-mailed them to me all run together, with everything, even the tags, all on one continuous line.  It was a joke.

And yes, for those who don't know it, most all GUIs that connect to FICS or ICC have the option to automatically have every game that you play or observe saved to the PGN file of your choice, immediately after it's played... without you doing a thing.  But of course, this isn't FICS or ICC... Chess.com hasn't caught up to those servers in the features department yet.  :(

@MrEd

Thanks so much for this info because I was just wondering about this stuff earlier today!

Actually, if you go here for online chess or here for live and select "view games archive", you can then just click 'select all' and then 'download PGN'. Unlike whatMrEdCollins has posted, the site generates a pgn file and emails it to you attached to an email. The problem he has was likely due attemting to open the file in notepad on windows, which is notorious for ignoring newline charcters in files.

Ah, my mistake.  Thanks for the correction.  The games last e-mailed to me appeared all together in the body of my e-mail.  But when I opened the attached file just now with TextPad (I don't use Notepad for anything... that program is terrible and has no features at all) the PGN appears almost fine.

I say "almost fine" because I see chess.com is printing exactly ten moves per line, regardless of the length of each line.  I've never seen that in any PGN file before.  PGN standard indicates each line should be, at most, 80 characters.  From article 8.2.1:

8.2.1: Movetext line justification In PGN export format, tokens in the movetext are placed left justified on successive text lines each of which has less than 80 printing characters. As many tokens as possible are placed on a line with the remainder appearing on successive lines. 

However, SCID vs. PC, and other GUIs I'm sure, can handle this move format anyway, with no problem.

Thanks.

Yeah, that bugs me as well. In fact, I'd much rather one move per line, e.g.:

1.e4 e5

2.Nf3 Nc6

etc.

But it's not a huge issue.

Thanks for all the help...I like fics for most things but chess.com has a good player pool and the forums.  I hope they add this feature but am grateful for having this stie.

Thanks all

If you have Chess Base running in Windows you can set it up so that it automatically opens up all .pgn files. You can get a free copy of chessbase and/or other free DB programs here

http://chess.kearman.com/html/software.htm

Ultimately, chess.com will never have the feature set that iCC and FICS have because ICC and FICS have client programs and chess.com does not. 

If you're really serious about saving your on-line games and reviewing them, playing here is a lot more work than playing on one of those other places. 

Chess.com is a vast improvement over Yahoo, but the fundamental differences between website hosted live chess and server based live chess remains fundamentally the same as it was a decade ago. See http://www.edcollins.com/chess/yahoo-vs-servers.htm.

If you read through the items in that somewhat lop-sided comparison, it seems to me that while it may have been true for yahoo at the time it was written, it does not extend to a comparison of current chess.com features. I didn't wade through the whole thing but clearly databases, video lectures (for paying members), bad language, conformance to rules of the game, to name but a few, are would score much more favourably here. Some aspects are true but that list is a little extreme!

Chess.com has implemented approximately half of the features that were absent on Yahoo when Ed Collins created that list. ICC had all of them in 2000, and still does.

Although the process of dowloading one's games from chess.com is awkward and cumbersome, the site does employ correct pgn formatting. Noplay on chess.com exists only as a wholesale block. Just because I don't want to play you does not mean that I am unwilling to discuss things with you in the forums. Distinguishing between blocking and noplay is possible on the servers, but not on chess.com. There is far more. Ed should update his list.

I'll add that to my "list of things to do." 

Thanks. I don't have the time myself, and you clearly know how to do it! I've been sharing your old link for many years, and keep it bookmarked.

I do that, but where is the download?