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Icon ChessGeek.com Chess Screen Saver & PGN Viewer v2.0


Program Description

Load your favorite Portable Game Notation (*.pgn) format chess games into our Windows chess screen saver and PGN viewer. Try the free download version for 30 days. This program comes with 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer, and 41 all time classic Grandmaster games, including the Immortal Game, Evergreen Game, Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue, and many more.

If you play like to play chess and you have a  PGN listing of the moves from your last game, then you should download this program. Now, you can impress your family, friends, and opponents, or just study  your own brilliant games by displaying them with our screen saver, or PGN viewer. This program is compatible with PGN file generatated by FICS. If you prefer, you can download your favorite Grandmaster's games from the Internet, or any PGN files for that matter, and display them as well. See the download page for this program for a small selection of PGN files that are currently available on the net. A screen shot of the program in action is shown below. Click here, or on the image below for a full size example of the chess board displayed by this program.


ChessGeek.com Screen Saver & pgn viewer

As you can see (in the full size image), the program will display the most relevant PGN tag pair information, such as White player, Black player, Results of the game, Date, and the Event. It can also display comments, that are contained within PGN files. It will also display the last move displayed, and the current material strength for black and white based upon the standard chess piece point totals. Users can interact with the program by pressing the appropriate keyboard commands, such as pressing the 'f' key to flip the board; using the left arrow key to immediately display the next move, or pressing the 'End' key to skip to the end of the currently displayed game. See the Readme file installed with the program for more details.


Users can configure a wide range of options for this screen saver using the ChessGeek.com Screen Saver Setup dialog box (as shown below, click here, or on the image for full size screen shot).

Setup dialog box

From the setup dialog, user can change which PGN file is diplayed, how long to pause between moves, and games, whether or not to continue with the last move displayed the last time the program was run, and whether or not to cycle through all games in the selected file, or just the currently selected game. Users can also configure such things as the board colors, last move highlight color, the current chess set used, or whether or not to display board coordinates, or comments. Again, checkout the Readme file included with the program for more details.

Some of the new features in version 2.0 include enhanced graphics, the ability to generate BITMAP images from the setup dialog using the Generate BMPs check box to capture images of the current board position, as the game is displayed, and the Layout drop-down list which can be used to quickly configure the program using one of the default factory layouts. This program is currently being used to provide the images for the "Chess Puzzles: Intermediate" series of ChessGeek chess puzzles. To see a full size preview screen click here.


Testimonials

I am very pleased with your program. I am currently working on different openings and your screen saver / viewer will be of a big help. Thanks for your labor of Love. - Bill Everly

Congratulations on your screensaver - I've been waiting for a while for something like that to come out - well done! - Mike


Download Screensaver and PGN Viewer

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Icon PMFB PlayStats


Summary:

You asked for it so here it is. Straight out of the dust balls. An old 68k based transcript analyzer for the PlayMaker Football game (PMFB). Now available once again by request. If you would like to learn more about PMFB, please visit the PlayMaker.com website, or PMFB network. I have made available the last full featured version of the program that I put together some years ago, (version 1.3.1b), and the remains of a version that was never finished completely, (version 2.0a). I currently make no quarantees about the quality with which either of the programs works with the most recent versions of the PMFB program or its transcripts.

NEEDS: PlayMaker Football v.2.x, which can be downloaded from PlayMaker.com.

SHAREWARE: $10


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Program Description:

PlayStats is a game utility for PlayMaker Football. The purpose of the program is to provide in depth statistical reports to improve play calling and player abilities. The program can also be used to provide league statistics for players, including quarterback ratings, among other individual statistics. Use the program to get ready for your next opponent now, by thoroughly testing your play calling today.

Quick and complete. Analyze an unlimited number of plays and player statistics from an unlimited number of Transcript files. Use standard Macintosh interface to build in depth statistical files.

Version 1.3, and up handle two point conversion, and also allows parsing of entire folders of transcripts.

Reports include complete play analysis including:
  • Grouping of Defensive of Offensive plays for totals.
  • Plots of Yards to Go, Field Position, and Game Time as shown in AI dialogs, including number of time called for each category.
  • Standard stats including: Situation, Attempts, Yards Gained, Total Yards Average yards per gain with user settable yardage parameters.
  • Shows total number of penalties, sacks, touchdowns, interceptions, breakups, blocks, pressured throws, dropped balls, fumbles and turnovers shown for each play.
  • Quick Summary including yards gained, and indication of any penalties, sacks, touchdowns, interceptions that occured on each play.
  • Play-by-play breakdown of penalties called for analysis of problem plays.


Reports also include complete player analysis including:
  • Grouping of offensive, defensive, kickers, and quarterbacks for totals.


* Listings include:

  • for Offense: Rush RYrd RAvg Ctch CYrd CAvg Tcks Drop Pty TDs Fmb FRcv
  • for Defense: Tcks TYrd TAvg Rtns RYrd RAvg Intc IYrd IAvg Sck Brk Blk Pty TDs Fmb FRcv
  • for Kickers: FGA FGM FG% EPA EPM EP% In20 Blk >>50 Yrds 40-49 Yrds 30-39 Yrds 20-29 Yrds 10-19 Yrds 0-9 Yrds M A % M A % M A % M A % M A % M A %
  • for Quarterbacks: Attp Cmp Thr% CYrd AvgGn Sck Hry Tip TDs TD% Int Int% Rating



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