Since the chess program lacks a library of games, and recalling my chess hero of a while ago, I googled for some of Bobby's games.
I found this: http://www.chesscorner.com/games/download/fischer.zip, a collection of 879 games (or so the website says).
I was a little surprised to find all the games in a single file, but I really don't know anything about the pgn format except it's somewhat intelligible to mortals:
[summer@potoroo ~]$ head -20 Download/fischer.pgn [Event "?"] [Site "New York,1848"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Fischer"] [Black "Unknown"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B57"] [Opening "Sicilian, Magnus Smith Trap"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 g6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 dxe5 9. Bxf7+ 1-0
[Event "?"]
Unfortunately, "chess" can't open the file, it complains "unknown character '..' where the two dots represent two characters I can't type on this keyboard.
Those question marks really are question marks, they're not being used to represent anything unprintable.
The question is, is this file invalid? Chess doesn't give me anything useful (for example, the line number or the byte offset).
I then downloaded this http://www.pgnmentor.com/players/Tal.zip and some other files from the same location, but chess can't open those either.
Has anyone had better fortune?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:16:31PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: ...
I then downloaded this http://www.pgnmentor.com/players/Tal.zip and some other files from the same location, but chess can't open those either.
Has anyone had better fortune?
I can load that fine with eboard built on F7; use Windows->Games on client->Load PGN. http://jorton.fedorapeople.org/eboard/
joe
Joe Orton wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:16:31PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: ...
I then downloaded this http://www.pgnmentor.com/players/Tal.zip and some other files from the same location, but chess can't open those either.
Has anyone had better fortune?
I can load that fine with eboard built on F7; use Windows->Games on client->Load PGN. http://jorton.fedorapeople.org/eboard/
joe
Thanks Joe.
At this time, I'm more interested in getting F8 bug-free than working around its little problems. To that end, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=363231
I would like it working, I've not played competitive chess in some years and I'm very rusty.