![]() ![]() Note: If you make a mistake and have to retrace steps to correct a previous move, select the last correct move, right click the mouse/track pad button to bring up a menu and select ‘Delete’ > ‘Delete Remaining Moves’ (or simply press the “]” key on your keyboard) to delete all moves after it (if you don’t, the corrected move sequence will be added as a variation from that point on). You will see the moves being notated automatically in the ‘Notation + Openings Book’ section. ![]() Play through the game by using the mouse pointer to move the pieces as per the players’ scoresheets (keep both copies handy to check for errors in writing). You should see a window like this: Image 2.2: Entering moves into game data Of the windows that will open, one of them should look like this: Image 2.1: Opening a specific game from the empty PGNĭouble click on the game whose moves you want to enter. Locate the empty PGN file created in Step One above and open it in ChessBase 13. For a Swiss tournament, you will have to repeat this step for each round unless you are entering in games after the tournament has ended. Note: If you’re entering games for a round-robin tournament where pairings for all rounds have already been generated, make sure to select from the first to the final round to make your work easier. The empty PGN file will be created in the same folder where the Swiss Manager file is located. Select the rounds for which you want to enter games, adjust parameter settings and click on ‘Output empty PGN file’. You should now see a window like the one below. Open the tournament file in Swiss Manager and navigate to ‘Other’ > ‘PGN files…’ on the main menu. In my first ever attempt at a chess tutorial, I have outlined below the three steps you need to take to turn handwritten moves into games that can be replayed on a web-based board without having to use third party software to download and render PGNs.įor this tutorial, you will need licensed copies of Swiss Manager and ChessBase 13 (other versions of ChessBase should also work fine but the exact process might differ slightly), players’ scoresheets and results already entered into Swiss Manager for at least one round of your tournament. Thankfully, the world’s most sophisticated pairings program, Swiss Manager, makes it possible to upload games manually from players’ scoresheets to Chess-Results via database compilation programs like ChessBase 13. If you are an organiser of a FIDE rated tournament and want your event to be worthy of scrutiny from chess commentators, making some or all of the games played available online is absolutely critical, more so if you aren’t offering live broadcast through DGT boards.
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