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Help with Blogging 101

I'm a new blogger and could use a little help from experienced bloggers with Blogging 101.  I've posted a couple of games with a ton of variations and analysis, but I suspect nobody will bother to look because it's all buried in the move list.

I've noticed that experienced posters can take a single game and break it up into sections so that the first 10 moves or so are in one diagram, the next 10 in another, etc.  WIM Engergia does this all the time in her excellent endgame articles.

Could somebody tell me the secret to doing this without having to repost the entire game each time?  I'm sure it's obvious once you know Tongue out

For example, if you want to show only the middle section of a game, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that.  If you import the pgn for the game, then the game starts on move 1 - not in the middle.  If you begin instead by recreating the middle-game position by hand, then there doesn't seem to be a way to import the pgn only for the moves for that section -- instead I find myself putting all the moves in by hand.

Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing here.   Somebody reading this is surely thinking "doesn't he know that he can simply...."   You know who are!! I'd really appreciate hearing from you.  Cool

If any Good Samaratians have time to look at my first two blogs and suggest other formatting improvements, I'd be grateful!

http://blog.chess.com/Eternal_Patzer/trying-to-learn-from-each-painful-loss

http://blog.chess.com/Eternal_Patzer/this-one-goes-in-the-patzer-hall-of-shame

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  • 4 Months Ago

    Eternal_Patzer

    Doomed K+P Endgame

    "Set Begin" - THAT was the missing link.  Of course!

    Thanks so much Wilford.  That's a HUGE help.  Really appreciate you taking a few minutes to share that!!

  • 4 Months Ago

    wilford-n

    Probably the easiest way to do this is to import the PGN for each diagram (even if it's the same game), then in the game editor, set the start point to wherever you want by using the "Set Begin" button, just below the move list. If you are trying to highlight a key move at the beginning of a combo, it's best to set the beginning one move BEFORE that move; otherwise the first move they will see when browsing forward will be your opponent's response. Here's an example:

    Notice that this also gives the advantage of being able to look back at earlier moves, if your reader so desires.

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