Brighton & Hove Chess Club

The Railway Club, Belmont House, 4 Belmont, Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3TF (near Seven Dials)

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If you have the PGN or algebraic notation to hand (like the example below) you can type or paste it into the vertical dialogue box on the right of the chess board. You should then be able to play through the game using the controls below the chess board.

The games archive on this site contains files which have extraneous PGN information which means that they cannot be read directly by this viewer. However, as with other PGN files, you can download them to your computer and then open them with a simple text editor (e.g. Notepad in Windows, by using right-click to select the alternative menu, selecting "Open with..." and then choosing Notepad from the list of software available).

Thanks to Lutz Tautenhahn for his code (see his homepage or his PGN Viewer help page).

Example PGN Game

Here is a game in PGN format. The PGN Viewer above will not cope with the prefatory information in square brackets (whereas Fritz etc., can). Make sure that information is absent from the dialogue box and the rest should work fine. Incidentally, this is a game played by one of our members, Duncan Badham.

[Event "Portsmouth Major"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2001.02.11"]
[Round "5"]
[White "D Badham"]
[Black "M Abbot, Gr 140"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A37"]
[PlyCount "115"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O e5 7. d3 Nge7 8. e3 O-O 9. Rb1 h6 10. b3 Bg4 11. h3 Be6 12. Bb2 Qd7 13. Kh2 f5 14. Ne2 e4 15. Nfg1 exd3 16. Qxd3 Ne5 17. Qd2 d5 18. Nf4 dxc4 19. Qxd7 Bxd7 20. bxc4 Nxc4 21. Bxg7 Kxg7 22. Rxb7 Nb6 23. Rxd7 Nxd7 24. Bxa8 Rxa8 25. Rd1 Nf6 26. Ne6+ Kf7 27. Nxc5 Rc8 28. Nb3 Ne4 29. Rc1 Rxc1 30. Nxc1 Nxf2 31. Kg2 Ne4 32. Nd3 Kf6 33. Nf3 Nd5 34. Nd4 Nxe3+ 35. Kf3 Nd5 36. h4 g5 37. hxg5+ Nxg5+ 38. Kf2 Ne4+ 39. Kf3 Ng5+ 40. Kf2 Ne6 41. Nxe6 Kxe6 42. Kf3 h5 43. Kf2 Kf6 44. Kf3 Kg5 45. Ne5 Nc3 46. a3 Nb5 47. a4 Nd4+ 48. Ke3 Ne6 49. Kf3 Nc5 50. Nc6 a6 51. a5 Nb3 52. Nb4 Nxa5 53. Nxa6 Nc4 54. Nc5 Nd2+ 55. Kg2 Kg4 56. Nd3 Nc4 57. Nf2+ Kg5 58. Nh3+ 1/2-1/2