Save Game function

[Chess Gator]

Hello,

I went into WB "Save Game" function and mapped to the icc.pgn file on my hard drive to save the ics games, yet no games are being saved. What am I doing wrong?

CG

[H.G.Muller]

What exactly were you doing?Is this about the File->Save Game or Options->Save Game menu item? With File->Save Game you do a one-time save of the single game currently loaded in Board, and the reason nothing gets saved could be that there currently is no such game. (Games of zero moves are not saved.) For instance, when you run in zippy mode, WB would not hold on to games when the finish, but immediately start a new game to get the engine ready in case there is a new challenge.

In Options->Save Game you should tick automatic saving, and specify a file, if you want games to be saved as soon as they end. But that only works for future games, and not for a game that has already ended, but is still loaded (so you can step through it with the arrow keys)..

[Chess Gator]

What exactly were you doing?Is this about the File->Save Game or Options->Save Game menu item? With File->Save Game you do a one-time save of the single game currently loaded in Board, and the reason nothing gets saved could be that there currently is no such game. (Games of zero moves are not saved.) For instance, when you run in zippy mode, WB would not hold on to games when the finish, but immediately start a new game to get the engine ready in case there is a new challenge.

In Options->Save Game you should tick automatic saving, and specify a file, if you want games to be saved as soon as they end. But that only works for future games, and not for a game that has already ended, but is still loaded (so you can step through it with the arrow keys)..

Hi, so what you are advising is (step 1) I have to save one game first to my icc.pgn file using "File - Save Game" and then the rest will save automatically with the (step 2) "Options - Save Game" function. I missed the first step, I figured the program would autosave. Okay, thanks I will try it with my next game.

CG

[H.G.Muller]

Indeed. Note that the ICS also autosaves your games, (but hangs on only to the last 10 or 40 of you or your opponent). So if you forgot to save agae you can always look it up in the ICS history, retreive it from there the smoves command so it gets loaded into WinBoard, and then save it with method (1).

[Chess Gator]

Strange this is happening. I open the icc.pgn file in Winboard and I get a list of the games and they play through the moves in WB.

I try opening the same icc.pgn in Fritz12 and it says there are no games!!

What is going on here?

Thanks,

CG

[H.G.Muller]

You could try to save a pgn game with fritz12 (assuming that it can read back its own files), save the same game with WinBoard, (after opening the Fritz PGN with it), and look what the difference is.