pgn2anki

Convert the positions of a (chess) PGN file with opening lines into an Anki deck.

The Problem

You are building an opening repertoire but you just cannot memorize the moves.

The solution

• You create an opening repertoire as a PGN file (e.g. with Jerry)
• use pgn2anki to automatically convert the PGN into a CSV file
• import this CSV into Anki
• memorize your lines with Anki
• PROFIT!!!

Steps

Preliminaries

• For Anki Desktop you need to install the FEN chess visualizer first.
• Ankidroid (Android) can already display FEN strings.

Windows

• Download the binary package from the release page
• unzip into a directory
• open a DOS-Shell (cmd.exe) and change to the directory
• run pgn2anki.exe --pgn FILENAME.pgn --depth 5 --player White. This will take the first 5 moves from root of FILENAME.pgn and extract positions whenever White is to move. You can omit the depth parameter if you want, then the whole PGN is used.
• a file import_anki.csv is created.
• import this file as a basic deck (front/back) into Anki (File -> Import).

Linux / OS X

Ensure you have a working installation of python 2.7 and git (default on OS X).

open command prompt. clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/asdfjkl/pgn2anki

cd pgn2anki

then

./pgn2anki --pgn FILENAME.pgn --depth 5 --player White

will take the first 5 moves from root of FILENAME.pgn and extract positions whenever White is to move.

Start Anki. Create new deck. Open deck.

File-> Import

Navigate to pgn2anki folder

Open "import_anki.csv"

FINALLY

Learn, learn, learn. And remember to not just memorize the moves, but also the strategy and concepts of the opening...

CREDITS

Niklas Fikas for python-chess