The first time I downloaded games here on, I selected a bunch of games to download at once, via the 'My Game Archive' site, and the file that was e-mailed to me was a jumbled mess! It didn't have any hard carriage returns in it at all! Stupid. You can use ChessX or SCID or a bunch of other databases or pgn utilities to filter out the games that you DON'T want in the sub file. If you then want to create additional, sub files, with specific openings, you can do so as described above. This file will contain all your games and nothing but your games.

Once a week or so you can continually update this file and add to it the games you played the prior week. Voila! Good.pgn will have all the games in the pesky one, and it will work in Chess Hero.Well, I first suggest having one, master PGN file with ALL your games in that you play here on. Now hit the copy button and when asked where to save, tell it to save to good.pgn, that empty pgn file you just made. Use the Shift button on your keyboard to select them all. Fritz will list all the games in the pesky file. Hit the Database button and load that pesky pgn that Chess Hero refuses. Hit the New button to create a new empty pgn file, lets call it good.pgn It may not work every time, but it works often.ĭownload Fritz 5.32 from here : Yes, it seems to be freeware now. If it appears with a tag value of “1”, a FEN tag pair must also appear. This tag must appear for a game starting with a set-up position.

A value of “1” indicates that the game started from a set-up position this position is given in the “FEN” tag pair. A value of “0” indicates that the game has started from the usual initial array. This tag takes an integer that denotes the “set-up” status of the game. My guess is that Chess Hero insists on having that written in for some reason. What you are really doing is adding the phrase before every game in the pgn file. Get to the Find and Replace area and type the following into the boxes:

Often its icon is a magnifying glass, or binoculars. Once you have opened the pgn file, open up the Find button in your text editor. My current favorite is Ever Edit but any one will do. Open the pgn file in a standard text editor. You do, however, need to feed it pgn files, and some of those files return an error message when you try to load them in Chess Hero, even though they work fine in Arena and other programs. The freeware program Chess Hero is lots of fun.

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