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Question: Where can I find my Playchess games?

Answer: Ever wonder how you save your Playchess games? The answer to this question might come as a surprise: you do not need to save them! Why? Because the games are saved automatically. Here's a quick explanation how this works and where you can see the games you have saved.

With Fritz or ChessBase

If you play with Fritz or ChessBase or play for free on Playchess then your games are automatically saved in this folder:

C:/Users/[Windows account username]/Documents/ChessBase/MyInternetGames.cbh

Since this is a ChessBase database, you would need to be able to open it Fritz , ChessBase or the free ChessBase Reader. As it is a local database (saved locally on your computer) you do not need to be online to access this database but you can open it like any other file or database on your computer.

If you are connected to playchess.com you can open the list with the played games. Under the tab "Account" select Played Games.

If you have various playchess accounts you will still find all your games in this file, no matter which account you used - if you played all the games from the same computer.

With the web app "MyGamesCloud"

When you connect to "MyGamesCloud with your account , you can access all the games you've played on Playchess.com from any computer, through Databases → Open Database.

Select Playchess.com Games

OK and you can see your playchess games.

ChessBase

You can also use ChessBase to connect to the cloud database of your ChessBase or playchess account to copy games and save them locally on your computer.

With the Playchess web app

After playing a game on play.chessbase.com, click on the button that saves the game in pgn-format on your computer (or another data storage device, e.g. a USB stick). Of course, the game is also automatically saved in the cloud database (as explained above).

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