Chess Forum
uskidscompute.com << online chess - < chess - chess > - chess online >>
| From | Message |
| Posted by gibo uskidscompute.com 10/16/2003 00:43:34 Play online chess |  Subject: downloading games in pgnMessage: Normally when i download games in pgn a little icon pops up i just click "save" i then save it to my desktop. Once its finished i can easily find it in my fritz 7 database then copy it to my main database. But i have noticed several pgn downloads where the icon does not pop up. e.g. www.nswjcl.org.au/NSWJun03/games/nswjrrd1.htm here when i click on pgn the games come out as if in microsoft word format. How can i save these games to my database on fritz 7. thanks |
| Posted by soikins uskidscompute.com 10/16/2003 08:06:30 Play online chess | It works to me... Message: at least in tha site you linked, but something similar happens elsewhere. Try using the left mouse button and choose "Save target as" from the menu that will pop up. Hope that helps. |
| Posted by silverwolfwsc uskidscompute.com 10/16/2003 12:10:59 Play online chess | that would be Message: the RIGHT mouse button actually. Just for clarification. ——— Time stops for no man — Almost everyone, chess player or not, is fascinated with the chess clock. Explaining how the device works to a new class is always a challenge. The two main problems are: 1.Most people think the chess clock times each move, when it actually times the whole game. 2.Most people think the device is one clock, and I have to inform them that a chess clock actually contains two separate clocks. Analog chess clocks were the norm for years until the digital chess clock was introduced. Above: A circa-1920s chess clock from the German manufacturer Schachverein Balingen Below: A digital chess clock made by Saitek is set for a five-minute blitz game of chess. The way it works is quite simple. The chess player with ... |
| Posted by gibo uskidscompute.com 10/16/2003 23:17:14 Play online chess | Message: it still saves it in a text form which my fritz 7 doesn't seem to be able to pick up ——— World still trying to peg Fischer — Bobby Fischer is a phenomenon whom we see through a glass darkly. Yasser Seirawan, a former U.S. chess champion, said in his book "No Regrets" that, after spending a day and a half with Fischer in 1992, he was convinced that 60 percent of what had been written about him was incorrect. Two meritorious — even brilliant — accounts of Fischer’s life were recently released: the book "Endgame" by Frank Brady and the HBO documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" by Liz Garbus. Both deservingly generated praise. But, according to some readers and viewers, neither biography provides a gut understanding of his complex behavior. Garbus seems to attribute Fischer’s difficulties in later life to ... |
| Posted by soikins uskidscompute.com 10/17/2003 00:09:21 Play online chess | right, Message: it's the right mouse button... Well, if it saves as a text form, so probably that's how the games are posted on that site :( That is a pity. Then you'll need to work harder on that problem, using good old Notepad. Step one: place an empty (or unnecessary) pgn file on your desktop (save it with Fritz or use some old pgn games from which you won't need. Step two: not obligatory, but just to make things easier in the future you should paste a link to Notepad.exe in Windows/SendTo folder. Step three: (if you suceeded in pasting Notepad in SendTo folder), click the RIGHT mouse button on the pgn icon on the desktop, pick SendTo from the popup and then pick Notepad. The file will be opened with Notepad. Do the same with the downloaded text file with the games. Then just copy the games to the pgn file and save them with Notepad. Step Three (if you didn't suceed in pasting Notepad in the SendTo folder), you should open Notepad from (Start/Programs/Aceessories/Notepad) and then from Notepad you should open the pgn file on your desktop. Open an other Notepad application and with that you should open the downloaded text file. Then copy the text from the downloaded file to the Notepad where the pgn is opened, save the pgn file and open it with Fritz. The games should be there. hope that helps. It's easier than the explanation :))) ——— Topalov Takes on the Irish National Team — When elite chess competitors take on a number of weaker opponents in simultaneous exhibitions, the stronger chess player has to move from board to board and has little time to formulate strategies. Rarely are the weaker players even on the master level. But in the 1980s, Garry Kasparov, who was then world chess champion, began giving exhibitions in which he took on groups of top-level chess players. They were timed, so Kasparov had to move faster than his opponents. After losing the first of the so-called simuls against a strong club team from Germany in 1985, Kasparov won every other one he played. Between 1987, when he won a return match against the Germans, and 2001, when he beat ... |
| Posted by gibo uskidscompute.com 10/17/2003 02:57:37 Play online chess | Message: thanks for the help there is actually something minor i missed. for any others having the problem once i pressed "save target as" i then agreed to save it as a "txt. document" with notedpad not realising there was another option. At the bottom of the icon you can also chose "all files" insted of "txt. document" this was then able to save it in a pgn file. ——— Vasily Ivanchuk seizes on rivals' blunders to lead Grand Slam final — In a rare form upset both the world chess champion, Vishy Anand, and the world No1, Magnus Carlsen, were beaten on the same day at the Grand Slam final which has just switched from São Paulo, Brazil, to Bilbao, Spain, for its last five rounds. Anand got his queen trapped while Carlsen made a mega-blunder which is featured in this week's puzzle. The major beneficiary was Vasily Ivanchuk, 42, who beat both Anand and the world No3, Levon Aronian, and since the chess event is using football-style three points for a win he was briefly six points clear until losing to Carlsen in the final São Paulo round. It seemed that Ivanchuk would have fond memories of São Paulo but next day, as ... |