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> How do you load your games into a chess engine? > Where do you play that allows you to export games? > And then are you loading into another site or using a
by I_complete_me 3y ago
> How do you load your games into a chess engine?
> Where do you play that allows you to export games?
> And then are you loading into another site or using a local application on your laptop as the "chess engine?"
I assume that you are a beginner and the following is quite simplified but I believe will assist you in getting started.
Most sites allow you to save your games as PGN (Portable Game Notation). On lichess, for example, you can go into your profile page an click on the download button to Export Games. This will save your games in PGN format. You need to download install a chess engine onto your computer / device. On a laptop or desktop it is relatively simplest to first install chess software with a Graphical User Interface - google that term - I will mention just one - no affiliation - just that it's relatively simple. Arena is a free graphical user interface for chess that helps you analyze and play games, plus test chess engines. After you run Arena chess you can import the games you exported in PGN format.
There are very strong open source / free chess engines (eg Stockfish) and other chess software with or without commercial chess engines. Just remember these three things:
- The format that chess games are saved in is PGN with a .pgn extension
- There is chess software that replays these PGN with no chess engine and that's fine to review a game digitally
- There are umpteen chess-engines that will analyze your games / moves - some free, some commercial