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How to SUBMIT A GAME

You can just hand me your handwritten score sheet at the Club or send it by email in one of these ways:

Method 1.

Just Open an email to me by clicking on EMAIL on any page of the Alwoodley Chess Club website.
Then type in something like:

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White: My mate's name. Grade 80
Black: My name. Grade 90
Played: 30 Feb 2005
Tournament: The Patzers and Pints League
Place: The Gambit Knight

Preamble. In this short game you will find how I have been sadly let down by the "good advice" that I have been given in the past.
1. e4 g5! I rather fancied that this would throw all his opening preparation into disarray! "Catch him by surprise!" It does not even appear on Fritz' massive database!
2. Nh3 Well, I saw at once that he played this to attack my pawn, and so I decided to defend it, leaving him with a very dim looking knight on the rim. "Knights on the rim are dim". I felt good at this point, knowing that he was obviously a stupid player, not to have played his Knight to f3, which was obviously better! I still had to choose whether to play 2...f6 or 2...h6. I had always been taught that "It is better to move pawns in the centre than on the flank in the opening", so I chose the former.
2. .... f6. 3. Qh5# A bolt from the blue!
Well, I think he was just plain lucky! It was unfair! I followed good advice and see where it got me!

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If you send in something typed like that then I will do the rest.

Method 2. Copy and Paste

STEP1. Type the game in to Fritz. Don't have Fritz or similar? I will lend you one.
(To add comments click on "View" and then "Annotation Palette" and then "Before move" or "After move" and you will get a little window in which to type your words. I find some people have never done this.)
STEP 2. Press Ctrl-C together. (Or click Edit then Copy Game then Copy game.)
STEP 3. Open an email to me by clicking on EMAIL on any page of the Alwoodley Chess Club website. Type in the details of names, grades, date, tournament and place.
STEP 4. Press Ctrl-V together or click the Paste button.
All your moves and comments are then pasted in without effort.
Then just send it.

(The weakness of this method is that it does not save your game for you nor send automatically send details of grades, date and tournament which you may have typed into Fritz. It takes me a little time to turn it into a form that can be animated for the website.)

Method 3. Play-Save-Attach

The best way all around

STEP1. Type the game in to Fritz. Don't have Fritz or similar? I will lend you one.
(To add comments see above.)

STEP2. Save the game. I find some people have never done this. This is how it goes: Click "File" "Save Game as" You then have a small screen to tell the details of how to save it. (There are screen shots below to help you.)

a) The common places to save files are "My Documents" or "Desktop" - you can go to them from the buttons on the left.
b) Then in the upper of the two lines below you type in a name for your game, followed by .pgn. Example: mygame.pgn.
You do not need to bother with the bottom line.
c) Click "Open" You then get a screen to type in the player names and the tournament.
Type in the grades where it says ELO. You can adjust the dates if the game was played some time ago. When you have finished, click "OK" and IT IS SAVED! (If you have trouble with this screen just do nothing but click "OK" and send me the details of players, place, date and result in the ordinary email.)

STEP3: Attach it to an email. Start an email to me by clicking on EMAIL on any page of the Alwoodley Chess Club website.

Click on the "Attach" button . You get a small screen which helps you to find the file. (I hope you have done that sort of thing before.) It will be in "My Documents" or "Desktop" where you put it. You may be puzzled to find TWO files with the name of your game. You could send both, but I only need the bigger one. If you let the cursor hover over them, you will find one will tell you that it is a Portable Game Notation (PGN) file. That is the one to click on and then click the "attach" button. You can check that that has worked because there will be a line in your email, below the subject line, showing "mygame.pgn (14KB)" - though the number will be different. If it says "mygame.ini (1KB)" then you clicked on the wrong file. Go back to Attach and this time add the other.

You then just send the email and in a day or two rejoice in seeing YOUR game up there for all the world to see. Who needs Kasparov! Chess is even more fun the way we play it.

Dylan
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Here are some screen shots if you have trouble:

You have played your game on Fritz, Now CLICK File...

and then Save Game As



So now you have to tell the computer where it is to be filed, and what it is called:

You then get a screen to complete the game details. When you have done as much as you can, click OK button

And THAT is how you save a game in Fritz!

Now create a new email. You can do that easily of course.

Type in a few words to me. Then the hard bit! Click Attach.

You have to search for the right document...
You will find two files. You could send both, but I only need the second. Highlight it. Click Attach.

That's probably right, but just check that it is in the Attachment line, and ends with .pgn

Now send!
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