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Make sure you download the right version. To open the pgn file Modern Database to see the chess games in it, you need a chess database like “SCID vs PC” (free, see this page below), or, for example, ChessBase Mega Package or as alternative the Russian database Chess Assistant PRO with Houdini PRO (DVD) or the interface of a commercially available chess program like Fritz Chess Software that has a chess database included to which you can add my Modern Database. This means you just extend this pgn database over time and add more games to it. You can use my pgn chess database with “SCID vs PC” and build your personal chess database with it. If download link does not work then please send me an email and I send you the download link. I have to charge you $35 for the pgn downloads, because it has been a lot of work to build the pgn file (expertchess.zip) with over 540 000 chess games, as you can surely imagine. However in the beginning SCID seems to be complicated to use it, so I will explain some important features that you must know to be able to build your database. You can also run chess engines and play games against the computer. With “SCID vs PC” you can create huge chess databases without having to buy expensive chess database software. Of course you can combine both options, for example set turn=black and pov=black.Shane’s Chess Information Database (SCID) was originally written by Shane Hudson, but has received strong contribution from others. Which generates the following image: Combining options ​ This makes the image being shown from the specified player's point of view.įor our example FEN and Black's point of view, the URL becomes: b KQkq - 0 1?pov=black

The choices are white and black and the default is white when not provided. You can include the pov query string parameter to specify the point of view, in other words, the orientation of the board.

Which generates the following image: Specify board orientation ​ This adds either White to play or Black to play text in the bottom left corner of the image.įor our example FEN and Black's turn, the URL becomes: b KQkq - 0 1?turn=black You can include the turn query string parameter to specify the turn. This generates the following image: Specify whose turn is it to played ​ Which for our example FEN correspondents to: b KQkq - 0 1 To generate an image for this FEN, simply use the FEN in the URL using the following pattern: