Incidentally, we are currently working on an updated database UI that includes a welcome screen, sidebar, configurable panels and improved searching by position + opening guides can be played through in the browser.

Bibs wrote on 08/15/26 at 23:38:42:


Is it so bad? It looks to me like 11 out of the 12 July updates were published in July, while mid-August we will already have 7/12 August updates published today.

GMTonyKosten wrote on 08/13/26 at 15:05:04:

Yes, there is.

I suppose one question is "how do people use PGN files?" That would determine how many (or few) people are affected.

I enter PGN files in Chess Opening Wizard. It places the header information in the final position of the game. Comments appear in a window next to the chess board position.

There is probably no problem for people who use ChessBase. I don't know about other programs.

I have a solution that works for me. I open the PGN file with my word processor. I do a "search and replace all" changing { to {CP:  This works because comments are preceded by {. This modifies the comment to display "CP:  comment."

Every comment is preceded by a source: CP, MC (Modern Chess), CI (Chess Informant), or EO (Encyclopedia of the Openings). It helps me to keep track of who said what.

If anyone on your staff uses Chess Opening Wizard, they should be able to show you what I'm talking about. Otherwise, please disregard.

I'm very impressed with the New ChessPublishing website. I'm blown away.

Nonetheless, I have a suggestion about downloading PGN files.

The download works as expected. Moves and comments download without error. I think it would be an enhancement if there were some attribution for comments. At it's simplest, the comment could be preceded by "CP:  ". Or it could be more complex as in "CP, Aug 2026:  ". Or even something like "CP:  Emms Aug 26:  "

Give yourselves a little credit.

Here's the tour:

I'm a bit baffled. 

The Search function is not at all clear to me. Where searching? Which section? And it seems to revert to nothing afterwards. So I key in moves again. Ugh. Harrumph.

I just want to key in moves to get the relevant updates for that position and the games. Simple?

How? Help please.

Back home and have re-downloaded the pgn updates for Daring Defences and 1.d4 d5 and both now contain the full annotations. Just compared them to the updates I previously downloaded and the original downloads didn't contain the full annotations as I mentioned for some reason. Anyway, appears to be fixed, or I did something wrong.

amadjambo wrote on 07/24/26 at 23:37:23:

That's odd, the games on the web site are made from those same PGN files, so they should be identical. Can you give me an example that I can look at?