In such cases you must enter it in the following way: 2019.?.?.

Now it will relatively often be the case that the year a game was played is known, but not the month and the day. Inputting the date is required to be in the format YYYY.MM.DD. When entering the date some subtleties must be observed.

The format with its single line for each data field, square brackets and the quotation marks must be strictly adhered to or else problems when reading the data are inevitable. (name of the tournament, other possible event) The following seven data fields are absolutely obligatory for the PGN standard:ġ. A game saved in the PGN format starts with the game data. The disadvantage: in the case of large collections of games the PGN format requires much more space on the hard disk than the specialised file formats.īelow you will find some useful information about the PGN format. Several games or even simply positions can be stored in a PGN file. Within the PGN format we can store in addition to the notation information such as the names of the players, the year, the result, the code for the opening, comments and variations. Since the data is saved in a purely text format that means that afterwards the notation can be worked on with any text processing software. It is supported by every chess program and thus is extremely important for the exchange of data. On the internet the text based PGN format is the standard format for storing chess games.

Create a pgn chess file