Even commercial programs do not allow thinking about a position. computer), nor for the computerized match analysis.Ī lot of PGN-Viewer which can be downloaded (under varying names) from the Internet are not designed to display chess puzzles. The program has no functions for the active game (human vs. The first Version of the PGNViewer was developed for the chess-CD of the chess club 'Rund um den Wartturm' (around the watch-tower) 2006 to replay the chess puzzles from the local Schaafheimer newspaper and the monthly magazine 'Schaafheimer'. You can see the smallest representation here.Ĭlick on the picture for the screenshot in original size. The size of the PgnViewer-board can be zoomed. The program includes language-modules in German, English and Spanish. 'PGN' stands for 'portable game notation' - an international standard for the digital recording of chess games. The PGNViewer 2.1 is a free program for the (graphical) presentation of chess databases, which are stored in the so-called pgn format. Download links can be found at the bottom of this page.

Pgn chess viewer