PGN

File Format
Name	PGN
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Saved Games PGN
Extension(s)	.pgn
MIME Type(s)	application/vnd.chess-pgn, application/x-chess-pgn

Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a text format that stores the moves of a game of chess, along with annotations and other metadata.

Software

• XBoard/WinBoard

Sample files

• The games at chessgames.com have links to view or download PGN files

Links

• Wikipedia article
• PGN spec