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At the bottom of this page you will get valuable chess information about the best Internet PGN link (webpage) where you can download PGN files with the latest games of chess masters on a weekly basis (1). On this page, you will also find the best Internet link to download PGN files with specific chess openings (2). Having at your possession the above PGN files, you can effectively learn chess openings. Using PGN files is a best way to learn chess openings by yourself!
How to learn chess openings using the PGN files? Download first PGN files with the latest games of chess masters (1). Using the above files, make you own PGN file with the chess games on the opening you want... Or download ready-to use PGN file on specific opening to learn (2). Open made your own PGN file on specific opening (1) or ready-to use PGN file on that opening (2) with any PGN viewer to replay the chess games and learn the opening you want.
Edit the original PGN files and create your own PGN file using... a simple Windows Notepad. Find the games on the needed chess opening within the original PGN files using the opening ECO codes or the opening name (see Lesson 18 on this site)... Open a PGN file by right-clicking, find games on the needed opening, use copy and paste... Create an empty .txt file, paste the games, and rename the file as .pgn... Download a decent freeware PGN viewer on the Internet (see Lesson 16)...
To find all chess opening lessons on this site, click the next link:
• Chess Opening Lessons - See All Links
A sample link to learn a semi-open game chess opening:
• Learn Alekhine's Defense e4 Nf6 (Lesson 43)
Learn important chess opening information for beginner:
• How to Estimate Who's Better and Make Plan for Middlegame (C, D)
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I. About PGN Files: Read Before Downloading
If you don't want to read about PGN files, to download the latest games of chess masters, or to make your own PGN files on specific chess openings, you don't need to go to the bottom of this page... If you only want to download the ready-to-use PGN files on specific chess openings (2), use the following link which is the best of its type on the Internet:
• Link to Download Ready-to-Use PGN Files on Specific Chess Openings
Note 1. The above link must open in a new window of your browser.
Note 2. To find an opening, click one of the following links: Classical King Pawn (1.e4 e5), Modern King Pawn (1.e4 other than e5); for Close Games use Modern Queen Pawn (1.d4), Classical Queen Pawn (1.d4 d5), Flank and Unorthodox (1.c4, ...).
Note 3. The opening PGN files are compressed as .zip files.
Below you can get more about PGN files and find another valuable link... Part I will explain you what are PGN files, how you can use PGN files to learn chess openings and playing chess, what kind of program you need to open PGN files, and the like. Using a PGN file, you can replay and see the recorded chess games inside it. Here we are to read and get:
• PGN files are special files designed for chess players.
• PGN files contain chess games or chess positions.
• PGN file may contain one chess game or many.
• If you have downloaded PGN file as zipped file, you must unzip it first to read.
• To read a PGN file, you must have a PGN Viewer Program installed on your computer.
• If you don't have a PGN Viewer Program, click the following link to download it:
• Lesson 16: Download Free PGN Viewer Program
• Install the PGN Viewer Program to open and read the PGN files.
• The Program being installed correctly, click any PGN file and it will be open by the Program (you can also open the PGN file via the Program's File menu).
• When the PGN file is open, in the Program's Information Panel you can see the list of chess games.
• Each chess game is one line in the list with the following information: the Name of chess player who played White, his or her Elo rating, Name of chess player who played Black, his or her Elo rating, Result, Date, Event, Site, Round, and ECO Code of Chess Opening.
• If you click a chess game's line, the Program opens the game in a new window: You will see the chess board with the initial position and the Program's Buttons - Next Move, Previous Move, and the like.
• To replay the game, click and keep clicking the Next Move Button.
• When you replay the game to the end, click the Load Next Game button at the top and the next chess game will open.
• You must have the list of the ECO Codes of the main chess openings to find the chess opening you want.
• For example, if you want to find the French Defense opening, click any game with ECO Codes C00-C19.
• If you don't know the ECO Codes of the main chess openings, click the following link:
Lesson 18: ECO Codes of Main Openings
• Be informed that one ECO Code may includes the names of few chess openings.
• For example, ECO Code C40 includes many chess openings but not one.
• C40 is Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5), Elephant Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5), and few openings more.
• Before seeing chess openings via PGN files, you are recommended to learn the initial positions and recognition moves of the main openings.
• If you don't know the initial positions and recognition moves of the main chess openings, click the following link:
• Lesson 8: Download Chess Opening Puzzle eBook
Now we are going to Part II, which explains how to download PGN files.
II. Download PGN Files from the Best Internet PGN Link (Page)
Part II will explain you how to download weekly PGN files with the latest games of chess masters from the Best Internet PGN Link (page).
• The Best Internet PGN Link (page) is a deep link of www.theweekinchess.com.
• This Link (page) had the Google Rank 5 which was very high for any separate Internet page for chess sites (Google Page Rank was 0 to 10, the higher the better, and it showed the Google trust - nowadays, Google Page Rank is cancelled but the page is still alive, developed and supported, with a great popularity today).
• As of 25 September 2019, this Link (page) had the Alexa Rank 261,997 which is very high for any separate Internet page for chess sites (Alexa Rank is from 1 to ~, the lower the better, and it shows the website world popularity by the number of visitors. For example, the Google website has Alexa Rank 1 and is the most popular website in the world).
• On this page of www.theweekinchess.com, you can find each Monday the new collection of chess master's games as TWIC ("The Week in Chess") PGN files.
• As of 25 September 2019, the latest TWIC PGN file was Number 1298.
• The TWIC PGN files are published as zipped files: To use the files, you will need to unzip them first.
• When you visit this page, you should make one click down to see the TWIC files.
• Each TWIC file has 2 different file formats to download (namely, the PGN file format and CBV file format - you will need the PGN file format). On the below picture, by clicking PGN you will download TWIC 1298:
Find the best Internet PGN files link (page) on the web here:
• Here: Link to Download the Latest PGN Files - The Week in Chess
Note 1. The above link will open in a new window of your browser. Go down on the open page and find the TWIC Download table first (as shown on the picture).
Note 2 TWIC stands for "This Week In Chess" file. Each TWIC file has its number: for example TWIC 1297, TWIC 1298 etc.. Then click any PGN link in the PGN column to download a PGN file.
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