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How best get pgn for import?

Hi,
when I read in my Bronstein book, I often want to stockfish the examples in a lichess study. When ever there were no collections in lichess studies, I do websearch for example such as:
"stoltz tartakower bled 1931"
and find:
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1030461
There is however no pgn support, so I do copy and paste and get the text, well not so bad, but yes still tedious to format: see, the spaces are lost.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3.Nf64.Bg5Be75.Nbd2Nbd76.e3O-O7.Bd3c58.O-Ob69.Qc2h610.Bh4Bb711.Rad1cxd412.exd4dxc413.Nxc4Bxf314.gxf3Nh515.Bg3Nxg316.hxg3Nf617.Qe2Rc818.f4Rc719.Bb1Bd620.a3Qe721.Rfe1Rd822.Ne3Rcd723.f5e524.Nc4exd425.Qf3Qf826.Rxd4Bc727.Rxd7Rxd728.Kg2Qc529.Ba2b530.b4Qd431.Ne3Qc332.Re2Qxa333.Qa8+Kh734.Nd5Nxd535.Bxd5Qd336.Bf3Bd837.Re8Qd438.Be4Qf639.Re6Qd440.Qc6Bb641.Re8Qxf2+42.Kh3Qf1+43.Kh4Bd8+44.f6+g645.Bxg6+Kxg646.Rg8+Kh747.Qe4+1-0

So, I was just interested how other people usually do it, or if there is even a recommended way.

Any answer, both positives and negatives, will appreciated.

No question, lichess is great.
@tossoi4 said in #1:
> There is however no pgn support, so I do copy and paste and get the text, well not so bad, but yes still tedious to format: see, the spaces are lost.

Best is move pieces yourself , for example read 5 moves from book and try to recreate it yourself on the study board . Chessgames allows pgn download for premium members , There is megadatabase too
@tossoi4
> There is however no pgn support, so I do copy and paste and get the text

chessgames dot com and 365chess dot com offer pgn downloads.
On the web link you showed just scroll down a little and look at the PGN section. If you choose View you can simply copy and paste the PGN content.
@achja said in #3:
> @tossoi4
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> chessgames dot com and 365chess dot com offer pgn downloads.
> On the web link you showed just scroll down a little and look at the PGN section. If you choose View you can simply copy and paste the PGN content.

1) Cannot find the "View" or "PGN section" at the website; what I get to grasp by "copy and paste" comes pretty close the to pgn text, if not the space characters were lost in the android brower chrome clipboard encryption support or where ever.. .. Seems a software weakness, or maybe it is a cripple by the game owners, because android firefox can not mark the text at all here.

2) mega database comes premium only, and pc only?

3) For sake of completeness I shall mention the appealing lichess masters database, which seemingly is not accessible by extended search. But if one enters, or imports, the first moves (and if game is after 1950), one can find the game entry in the green popup library tool. With this game this happens for example lichess.org/efx9csKZ. Here I come to an end with my latin. For sure you are invited to correct me.
@tossoi4

On the chessgames dot com web link you mentioned in #1 there is :

explore this opening
find similar games 7 more Stoltz/Tartakower games
sac: 45.Bxg6+ PGN: download | view | print Help: general | java-troubleshooting

The PGN : download | view part is what you need.

Here the text web link from that as an example.
www.chessgames.com/perl/nph-chesspgn?text=1&gid=1030461
@tossoi4

"Hi,
when I read in my Bronstein book, I often want to (...) There is however no pgn support, so I do copy and paste and get the text, well not so bad, but yes still tedious to format: see, the spaces are lost.

So, I was just interested how other people usually do it, or if there is even a recommended way.

Any answer, both positives and negatives, will appreciated.

No question, lichess is great."

Hi,
maybe I'll be slightly negative but kind of friendly. If I were you I would play all that Bronstein moves into computer manually. It is much better for learning the game than just copy+paste. And even better, try to find the master's move before you look in the book. Then check the description in the book why the master played that move.
Thank you, it is kind. And I should follow that more often, just because my blind playng (the imagination of position) handycap is still thaa at huge. There are only two things.
2) I, although yet of age, am mainly new at chess, but how much I wondered about the fashion that modern players prefer watching DVD films than reading books?
1) In this book Bronstein worked basically with diagrams, but not without somewhere between the lines dropping the name of the game. There is where I start investigating. I do not know how it is with other people, but having the whole game shall make easier, what was impossible enough to remember anyway.

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