F8T3 and chess

[John Summerfield]

Since the chess program lacks a library of games, and recalling my chess 
hero of a while ago, I googled for some of Bobby's games.

I found this: http://www.chesscorner.com/games/download/fischer.zip, a 
collection of 879 games (or so the website says).

I was a little surprised to find all the games in a single file, but I 
really don't know anything about the pgn format except it's somewhat 
intelligible to mortals:

[summer at potoroo ~]$ head -20 Download/fischer.pgn
[Event "?"]
[Site "New York,1848"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fischer"]
[Black "Unknown"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B57"]
[Opening "Sicilian, Magnus Smith Trap"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 g6
7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 dxe5 9. Bxf7+ 1-0

[Event "?"]

Unfortunately, "chess" can't open the file, it complains "unknown 
character '..' where the two dots represent two characters I can't type 
on this keyboard.

Those question marks really are question marks, they're not being used 
to represent anything unprintable.


The question is, is this file invalid? Chess doesn't give me anything 
useful (for example, the line number or the byte offset).


I then downloaded this http://www.pgnmentor.com/players/Tal.zip and some 
other files from the same location, but chess can't open those either.

Has anyone had better fortune?




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Cheers
John

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