Read any PGN online: paste a game, open a multi-game PGN file, or start from a FEN position. Replay variations, comments and NAG annotations, move the pieces yourself, and export the analysis back to PGN.
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Paste a PGN straight into the box, or upload a .pgn or .txt file. It handles a single game, a heavily annotated study with variations and commentary, a multi-game file with dozens of games in it, or just a bare FEN string when all you want is a position on a board.
Moves are laid out as a tree rather than a flat list, so side lines are real branches you can walk into and come back out of. Comments stay attached to the moves they belong to, and NAG annotations — the !, ?, !? marks a commentator leaves behind — are read and shown rather than silently dropped.
Step through with the arrow keys or the navigation buttons, at whatever pace you want.
The board is not read-only. At any point in the game you can pick up a piece and play a different move to see where it leads, then step back to the game as it was actually played. Set up a position from scratch with a FEN string and play from there if you would rather start from a specific structure than from a whole game.
Export writes the whole tree back to PGN — your added lines included — and downloads it as a file, so the analysis you did here does not get stranded here. No account is needed for any of this: open the page, paste, read.