Hi,

Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?

Thanks!

bu2 wrote:
Hi,

Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?

Thanks!


try
http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm
(Chess2pgn)

I haven't tried them myself. I tend to hand enter the moves to study
and annotate as I go.

google or yahoo search provides other choices:
"Yahoo! Chess Game" pgn conversion

Much obliged, Wulfie!

"Beowulf" wrote in message
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bu2 wrote:
Hi,

Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?

Thanks!
try
http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm
(Chess2pgn)

I haven't tried them myself. I tend to hand enter the moves to study and
annotate as I go.

google or yahoo search provides other choices:
"Yahoo! Chess Game" pgn conversion

bu2 wrote:
Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?

I'd strongly recommend that, if you're serious enough about chess to want
to store your games in PGN format, you should consider playing somewhere
other than Yahoo. The quality of opposition at, say, FICS, ICC or
Playchess is rather higher. (And you get to try out openings other than
1.e4 2.Bc4 2.Qh5 !)


Dave.

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David Richerby wrote:
bu2 wrote:

Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?


I'd strongly recommend that, if you're serious enough about chess to want
to store your games in PGN format, you should consider playing somewhere
other than Yahoo. The quality of opposition at, say, FICS, ICC or
Playchess is rather higher. (And you get to try out openings other than
1.e4 2.Bc4 2.Qh5 !)


Dave.

BAH! The Game's the thing. If he likes playing on yahoo, let him, you
elitist swine. Besides, its free and simple and my wife likes it to
try out new openings and attacks.

I do recommend FICS, however. (schachster I am)

Thanks again, Woolfie! One problem though. I play fast games
usually 5/0. And of course I forget to e-mail them every now
and then. Once you fail to do so I don't think it can be remedied
as it appears Yahoo does not keep any games on the server.

The conversion program "chess2pgn" generally works well
but has a bug or two. For instance if both Knights are capable of
going to say d4 square the program gets confused and butchers
the rest of the game. But then having paid for it exactly zero
dollars I cannot complain. It also seems to work on one game at
a time, only.

I do play on FICS as well and I prefer it to Yahoo but find it
interesting to play on different servers as long as they are free. :-))
For my level of play paying to be on ICC or similar would not
really make a big difference right now. Your significant other is
probably right about why it may be more interesting to play on
Yahoo sometimes. I must say players on FICS are, generally
speaking, much more polite.

GM Bu.
( Just kidding :-) )

"Beowulf" wrote in message
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David Richerby wrote:
bu2 wrote:

Where can a Yahoo chess game format to PGN Conversion Program be found?


I'd strongly recommend that, if you're serious enough about chess to want
to store your games in PGN format, you should consider playing somewhere
other than Yahoo. The quality of opposition at, say, FICS, ICC or
Playchess is rather higher. (And you get to try out openings other than
1.e4 2.Bc4 2.Qh5 !)


Dave.

BAH! The Game's the thing. If he likes playing on yahoo, let him, you
elitist swine. Besides, its free and simple and my wife likes it to try
out new openings and attacks.

I do recommend FICS, however. (schachster I am)

Beowulf wrote:
David Richerby wrote:
I'd strongly recommend that, if you're serious enough about chess to
want to store your games in PGN format, you should consider playing
somewhere other than Yahoo.

BAH! The Game's the thing.

Exactly my point. And there seems to be very little of `the game' on
Yahoo.


If he likes playing on yahoo, let him, you elitist swine.

I can hardly stop him...


Besides, its free

So is FICS.


and simple

So is FICS.


and my wife likes it to try out new openings and attacks.

Which she could do equally well on FICS (in unrated games if she prefers).


I do recommend FICS, however. (schachster I am)

Bingo! :-)


Dave.

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