Terry wrote:
Yahoo emails a list like this:

;Title: Yahoo! Chess Game
;White: kilowatttd
;Black: yennapadepez
;Date: Sat Oct 20 17:37:20 GMT 2007

1. d2-d4 g7-g6
2. e2-e4 f8-g7
3. c2-c4 e7-e6
4. b1-c3 c7-c6
[...]
I have tried to put just the move list in a text file and name it
xxx.pgn

It's not PGN so there's no reason to expect that to work. Winboard
will, as I recall, import this notation and then allow you to save it
as PGN.


Dave.

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