Here is a free utility which will convert your saved Yahoo! Chess game
to PGN so that you can import it into a popular chess viewer or
analysis program.

http://www.geocities.com/pgnchess2004

"Robert Smith" wrote in message
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Here is a free utility which will convert your saved Yahoo! Chess game
to PGN so that you can import it into a popular chess viewer or
analysis program.

http://www.geocities.com/pgnchess2004

Alternatively, consider playing chess on FICS instead of Yahoo.
FICS - http://www.freechess.org (Free Chess Internet Server)
iNemesis - http://www.ideabuilders.com/public/ (free graphical
interface for FICS)

For reasons why, visit:
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/yahoo-vs-servers.htm
It's an excellent page about Yahoo vs the Chess Servers. Check this page to
see all the benefits of a *real* chess server like FICS, as opposed to game
sites like Yahoo.

Among other things, he gives a table showing just some of the advantages in
playing chess on the chess servers, with a chess interface, compared with
playing chess at Yahoo! and their Java applet. One of course, is that using
a graphical interface (like iNemesis) on chess servers like FICS, you can
have your games saved in PGN automatically, not to mention analyze them
immediately afterwards with a chess engine.

Check his page for all the details, but here are a few quotes:

"A popular place to play chess on-line is at the Yahoo! Games site. At
times, I see anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 people, or more, logged into the
chess room, playing here!! These figures never cease to amaze me because
Yahoo! is NOT the ideal place to play on-line chess! That distinction
belongs to the chess servers, namely, US Chess Live, FICS, Chess.net and to
a lesser degree, ICC.

"This page is my effort to help educate those who are not yet aware of the
on-line chess servers and all of the many advantages that they offer.
"Unless you are a "newbie" and you simply have not yet learned how to
download programs and unzip and run them, I can see NO advantage in
playing chess at Yahoo!. The only advantage in playing chess at Yahoo!
is that it caters to computer newbies."
Read more at: http://www.edcollins.com/chess/yahoo-vs-servers.htm

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Gregory Topov
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:32:30 GMT, Robert Smith
wrote:

Here is a free utility which will convert your saved Yahoo! Chess game
to PGN so that you can import it into a popular chess viewer or
analysis program.

http://www.geocities.com/pgnchess2004


All you need to do is save the game score from Yahoo to a text file,
then load it into WinBoard, then save it again.
Jon Beckett