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PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List and miscellaneous tools
A collection of chess software to handle the Portable Game Noatation (PGN) for different purposes like publication, editing etc.
Note that many Chess GUIs (for example Winboard/XBoard, Shredder, Chessbase, etc) also have PGN capabilities.
Alphabetical Index
- Advanced Chess Field Editor by Maya Posch
- BagaturChess PGN Tool by Krasimir Topchiyski
- BPGNViewer by Zon Juan Jan / Sergiy Vasylkevych
- Bug Assistant by Vassili Sukharev'
- Chess Artist, requires Python and works with Brainfish/Stockfish by Ferdinand Mosca
- ChessBase Reader for CBF / CBH / PGN by ChessBase GmbH
- ChessBase to PGN format converter for Android by Gerhard Kalab - Google
- ChessBoard Capture Program for converting diagrams into FEN / PGN - User´s Guide by Fred Mellender
- ChessCat (PGN Viewer/Writer) by Tony Essman
- Chess Diagram Editor by psmok
- Chessdiagrammer - Freeware by Ekkehard May
- Chess Editor by Rick Miskowski
- ChessExplorer by Jan Nowakowski
- Chess Game Analyzer for PGN and UCI-compatible engines by Ferdinand Mosca
- Chess Game Notation File Converter by newsgroup rec.games.chess
- ChessPartner PGN Viewer for Windows 8.1 (Phone) by Lokasoft
- Chess PGN by Dhawal Jaiswal
- Chess-PGN-Parser by Giuseppe Maxia
- Chess PGN Player by Gary Darby
- Chess Query Language - Wayback Archive by Gady Costeff and Lewis Stiller
- Chess Tempo PGN Viewer by Chess Tempo
- Chess Theatre by DGT Projects
- Chess Tool PGN by Guillermo Gajate
- Chess Viewer DBMS by Tim Nesham
- Chess Viewer Deluxe (Java applet) by Nikolai Pilafov
- ChessViewX Complete by Scott Haag
- CompoChess by Uwe Auerswald
- Creatica Chess Game Analyzer by Arkadi Poliakevitch
- En Passant by Eric Bentzen with a collection of chess tools, e.g. section “Readers and Viewers”
- FEN Database by Mathieu Pagé
- FEN-EPD Viewer by Manfred Rosenboom
- Forward Chess, advanced book reader with analyzing features etc. by WiTechnoME LLC
- Haundrix Chess by Alex Ignacio da Silva
- Javascript PGN Viewer by Toomas Römer
- jPGN - multiplatform Java PGN Reader by rantz Fischer
- Knight Vision PGN Viewer Quick Publisher by Glenn Wilson
- LT-PGN Viewer - PGN2FEN - converter by Lutz Tautenhahn
- Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge
- Montreux by JPF Software
- MyChess Viewer by Michael Keating - this site contains trainings (openings/endgames) and an online chess database, too
- PalmPGN (for PalmOS) by David Jaquay / Aaron
- Penguin (PGN editor/reader/viewer and desktop board for analysis and review of games) by Dariusz Stachowski
- PGN - Portable Game Notation Specification And Implementation Guide by Steven J. Edwards
- pgn4web - websites / blogs / live broadcasts by Paolo Casaschi
- PGN ChessBook by Norman Solomon - includes a database and an integrated chess engine
- PGN Cleanup Toolkits by Jim Ablett
- PGN Extract by David J. Barnes
- PGNExtract GUI by Alex Guerrero
- PGN Extract Interface by Ferdinand Mosca
- PGN Mentor by 64 Squares (shareware; demo version has some built-in restrictions)
- PGN Parser by supareno
- PGN Scanner by Gabriel Guillory
- PGN Splitter for Windows by Stefano Gemma
- PGN Viewer by Nazmi Altun aka dufresne88
- PGN Viewer Applet by Misty Beach Software Organization
- PGN-Viewer - Schachfeld.de by forumhome GmbH & Co. KG
- PGN Viewer Oslo by Sabarinathan Arthanari
- Polyglot section by Fonzy Bluemers (ChessPartner-GUI layouts, DLL to use Pro Deo Books, WB2UCI, WB232c.exe)
- Raptor Chess Interface by Carson Day, Bodia on FICS and other members
- Schachdiagramm Designer - Onlineschach by Martin Strauch
- Schachdiagramm-Generator by Schachforum.at, a website from Austria
- SOMU - SONU by Ed Schröder
- Utilities Strip.PGN - Validate.PGN by Dragan Zdravkovic
- Video Chess Game by Herbert Dye - click there on “Game Viewer” (for online-play) or select the option “Play Your Own Game”
- WiseBoard Editor by Apronus.com