A collection of chess software to handle the Portable Game Noatation (PGN) for different purposes like publication, editing etc.

Note that many Chess GUIs (for example Winboard/XBoard, Shredder, Chessbase, etc) also have PGN capabilities.

• Advanced Chess Field Editor - Maya Posch

• BagaturChess PGN Tool by Krasimir Topchiyski

• BPGNViewer by Zon Juan Jan / Sergiy Vasylkevych

• Bug Assistant by Vassili Sukharev'

• Chess Artist, requires Python and works with Brainfish/Stockfish by Ferdinand Mosca

• ChessBase Reader for CBF / CBH / PGN by ChessBase GmbH

• ChessBase to PGN format converter for Android by Gerhard Kalab - Google

• ChessBoard Capture Program for converting diagrams into FEN / PGN - User´s Guide by Fred Mellender

• ChessCat (PGN Viewer/Writer) by Tony Essman

• Chess Diagram Editor - psmok

• Chessdiagrammer - Freeware - Ekkehard May

• Chess Editor - Rick Miskowski

• ChessExplorer by Jan Nowakowski

• Chess Game Analyzer for PGN and UCI-compatible engines by Ferdinand Mosca

• Chess Game Notation File Converter by newsgroup rec.games.chess

• Chessmonk by Daniel Borgmann - Google

• ChessPartner PGN Viewer for Windows 8.1 (Phone) by Lokasoft

• Chess PGN by Dhawal Jaiswal

• Chess-PGN-Parser by Giuseppe Maxia

• Chess PGN Player by Gary Darby

• Chess PGN Viewer for Android by Gerhard Kalab - Google - Pro Key

• Chess Query Language - Wayback Archive by Gady Costeff and Lewis Stiller

• Chess Tempo PGN Viewer by Chess Tempo

• Chess Theatre by DGT Projects

• Chess Tool PGN by Guillermo Gajate

• Chess Viewer DBMS by Tim Nesham

• Chess Viewer Deluxe (Java applet) by Nikolai Pilafov

• ChessViewX Complete by Scott Haag

• CompoChess by Uwe Auerswald

• Creatica Chess Game Analyzer by Arkadi Poliakevitch

• En Passant by Eric Bentzen with a collection of chess tools, e.g. section “Readers and Viewers”

• FEN-EPD Viewer - Manfred Rosenboom

• Forward Chess, advanced book reader with analyzing features etc. - WiTechnoME LLC

• Haundrix Chess by Alex Ignacio da Silva

• Javascript PGN Viewer by Toomas Römer

• jPGN - multiplatform Java PGN Reader - Frantz Fischer

• Knight Vision PGN Viewer Quick Publisher by Glenn Wilson

• LT-PGN Viewer - PGN2FEN - converter by Lutz Tautenhahn

• Lucas Chess by Lucas Monge

• Montreux - Exeter Chess Club by JPF Software

• MyChess Viewer by Michael Keating - this site contains trainings (openings/endgames) and an online chess database, too

• Norman´s Pollock Chess Site

• PalmPGN (for PalmOS) by David Jaquay / Aaron

• Penguin (PGN editor/reader/viewer and desktop board for analysis and review of games) by Dariusz Stachowski

• PGN - Portable Game Notation Specification And Implementation Guide by Steven J. Edwards

• pgn4web - websites / blogs / live broadcasts by Paolo Casaschi

• PGN Cleanup Toolkits by Jim Ablett

• PGN Explorer from Microsoft by Norman Solomon

• PGN Extract by David J. Barnes

• PGNExtract GUI by Alex Guerrero

• PGN Extract Interface by Ferdinand Mosca

• PGN Mentor by 64 Squares (shareware; demo version has some built-in restrictions)

• PGN Parser by supareno

• PGN Scanner - Gabriel Guillory

• PGN Splitter for Windows by Stefano Gemma

• PGN Viewer by Nazmi Altun aka dufresne88

• PGN Viewer Applet by Misty Beach Software Organization

• PGN-Viewer by Schachfeld.de - an offer of ForumFactory (Carsten Grentrup) in Germany

• PGN Viewer Oslo by Sabarinathan Arthanari

• PGN World Viewer (three versions: free - standard - full) by Andreoua

• Polyglot section by Fonzy Bluemers (ChessPartner-GUI layouts, DLL to use Pro Deo Books, WB2UCI, WB232c.exe)

• Raptor Chess Interface by Carson Day, Bodia on FICS and other members

• SAN Kit - Read and write PGN format and test moves for legality. by David Hoerl

• Schachdiagramm Designer - Onlineschach - Martin Strauch

• Schachdiagramm-Generator - Schachforum.at, a website from Austria

• Setapu - (S)ome (E)pd (T)ools (A)nd (P)gn (U)tils by Ed Schröder

• Utilities Strip.PGN - Validate.PGN by Dragan Zdravkovic

• Video Chess Game by Herbert Dye - click there on “Game Viewer” (for online-play) or select the option “Play Your Own Game”

• WiseBoard Editor by Apronus.com