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Good software to annotate games?

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Hello all,

anyone know of any good software to annotating games?

Pretty much doing what many online interactice analysis board does (but offline):

  • A GUI to input moves or loading game PGN
  • Add comments and variations
  • Option to use an engine to suggest moves, multi PV mode
  • Raw editing of the PGN data, when the UI messes up :-)
  • A big plus is if it can also use an opening book (in a documented format like polyglot)
  • A HUGE plus is if it runs on Linux.

(And don't suggest SCID, it is too confusing, does too much and the annotation part is severely lacking. Spent too many hours with it already.)

The best I found so far is ChessPad2 (for Windows, but runs in Linux with wine). Too bad it seems to mess up the PGN data, and also does not seem to allow mixing variations and comments in the movetext. Also it's engine output it too verbose and limited to one variation.

Hello all, anyone know of any _good_ software to annotating games? Pretty much doing what many online interactice analysis board does (but offline): - A GUI to input moves or loading game PGN - Add comments and variations - Option to use an engine to suggest moves, multi PV mode - Raw editing of the PGN data, when the UI messes up :-) - A big plus is if it can also use an opening book (in a documented format like polyglot) - A HUGE plus is if it runs on Linux. (And don't suggest SCID, it is too confusing, does too much and the annotation part is severely lacking. Spent too many hours with it already.) The best I found so far is ChessPad2 (for Windows, but runs in Linux with wine). Too bad it seems to mess up the PGN data, and also does not seem to allow mixing variations and comments in the movetext. Also it's engine output it too verbose and limited to one variation.

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