Get PGN

Hello, chess.com!

I won't mind giving me a piece of advice on a convenient way to get PGN from an archived game without dealing with pgn-file download!

This is a problem of man, who:

1. Wants to get game's PGN.
2. Don't want a PGN file on his HDD OR the necessity to search and delete (not a big deal though, but still a deal) such files each time after copying PGN from file to clipboard and then to ChessBase or something.

Maybe there is a way (wheter by means of chess.com interface or by some other means), maybe not. In some social networks' chess aplications there is a popup with PGN text, without any files.

If there is no such feature, then this topic may be approached as a proposal on improvement. :) 

The easiest way to get a PGN is to list your games. There will be a box at the right. Click the games you want to download as a PGN file. Scroll down and click on 'Download'.

Another way to get a PGN file w/o downloading it. Go to the game and select 'Analyze'. The PGN file will then become available. Copy it to your clip board by selecting all the text, right-click your mouse and select 'Copy'.

Now leave the chess site and open up your chess program. Select 'Paste game' and WA-LA!!! Your game is pasted into you chess program. Make sure that this is a finished game or you may be accused of cheating if the game is still being played. If you do not want to paste it into your chess program then create a new message (or text file using Notebook) and paste it in there.

Cheers,

Don

BTW, I probably should have mentioned that for games that you select to download from your archives Chess.com will send the games in PGN format to your email address.

Cheers,

Don

How to do to download more than 50 games at once?

When you select all, 50 are selected and you can download them as a pgn file, but what if I want to download the latest 200 games?

That's easy! Select the games in 50 game segments.

Don

And you get 4 files with 50 games each. I want a file with 200 games.

No, you can't always get what you want
No, you can't always get what you want
No, you can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime, you just might find
You get what you need

Sorry guy, I get all my information from the 'HELP' files. Try reading through them and maybe you can find somrthing that I have missed...

Don

[Event "Vs. Computer"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2023-12-13"]
[White "Sumitra-Nandan"]
[Black "Isabel"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "800"]
[BlackElo "1600"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[Termination "*"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Nf3 Qf6 4. Bc4 Na6 5. d3 b6 6. O-O Rb8 7. Qe1 Nb4 8. Qe2
Ba6 9. a3 Bxc4 10. axb4 Bxb4 11. dxc4 Bxc3 12. bxc3 a5 13. Rd1 Qe6 14. Ng5 Qc6
15. Qf3 Nf6 16. Nh3 Qxe4 17. Bg5 Qxf3 18. gxf3 h6 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. Rd2 Ke7 21.
Rad1 d6 22. c5 Rbg8+ 23. Kh1 bxc5 24. Rxd6 cxd6 *

Simple; use the Share button on the bottom - right corner and you get a PGN, or FEN/ anyway you would like to share your game.

thx