scidCommunity Help: Exporting games

# Exporting games

You can use commands under the [Tools] menu to export the current game or all games in the current filter to a text file.

Two text file formats are available: PGN (portable game notation) and HTML (for web pages).

When exporting, you can choose to create a new file, or add the games to an existing file of games exported by scidCommunity.

### Diagrams

When exporting in HTML format, scidCommunity will automatically add a diagram wherever a diagram nag ("D") or a comment that starts with the character "#" appears in the game.

### Null moves in PGN Export

scidCommunity allows null (empty) moves to be stored in games, as they can be helpful when annotating games using variations. However, the PGN standard has no null move concept. So if you export scidCommunity games with null moves to a PGN file, other PGN-reading software will not be able to read the null moves.

To solve this problem, scidCommunity provides an extra option, Convert null moves to comments, when exporting games in PGN format. If you want to create a PGN file that other software can use, turn this option on and variations containing null moves will be converted to comments. However, if you want to create a PGN file that can be imported back into scidCommunity later with null moves preserved, leave the option off.

### HTML Export

scidCommunity can export games to an HTML file. For diagrams to appear, you will need the diagram images (distributed with scidCommunity in the directory "bitmaps/") to be in a subdirectory bitmaps/ under the directory the HTML file is in.

(Updated: scidCommunity, February 2026)