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PGN stands for Portable Game Notation. This is a file format for storing chess games (both the moves and various header data such as players' names) that is easily read by people while also easy for programs to parse.

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Is there a text editor with syntax highlighting for PGN files?

I'd like to have something usable on Windows that would let me do this with pgn files (see header tags, and annotations in different colors from main line moves). …
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Is PGN split utility available anywhere?

A couple of places on the web mention a free utility called pgnsplit, that does the following: "A commandline tool to convert pgn-files including games with variation into pgn-files where each variation …
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Is there an Android viewer that understands international language comments in PGN?

I have a PGN file, in which I can view non-English (Cyrillic) comments on my PC in Chessbase or in Notepad++, but all Android apps (playchess, masterchess, scid on the go, droidfish) I tried instead show …
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What are the options to automatically identify games where the first move played was the bes...

Let's imagine I have a pgn file with each game starting from a tactical position, and I want to identify the games where the solution was the only one. …
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What web-based Content Management System (e.g. Blogger) has the best support for chess content?

My needs are mostly blog-like - to post static pages and regular updates, and I'd like to choose a platform that has good support for embedding FEN/PGN strings/files out the box and generating diagrams … I'd also like to link to a static pgn file with many combinations and have a gadget that would display a diagram with a "Daily Tactic". …
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