PGN & FEN formats
Régence speaks chess’s two standard languages: PGN (games and their move trees) and FEN (a single position). No proprietary format — your data stays readable by any tool, forever.
PGN — reading
| Source | Detail |
|---|---|
File (Cmd + O, drag and drop, Import menu) | One or several games per file — a multi-game file imports whole |
| Game URL | Lichess and chess.com (Cmd + Option + O) |
| Account archives | Full monthly import, clocks included |
| Studies | Lichess studies and PGN files, chapters included |
Headers (players, Elo, result, ECO…), variations, {…} comments and !? annotations are preserved — including custom starting positions (“from position” games, exercises).
PGN — writing
| Export | Content |
|---|---|
Copy the PGN (Cmd + Shift + C) | The current game, tree and comments included — ready to paste anywhere |
Save as… (Cmd + Shift + S) | The game’s PGN file |
Export with analysis… (Cmd + Shift + E) | The PGN enriched with the analysis: per-move evaluations and best lines as comments — readable by any standard software |
| Studies | One study, a selection or a whole folder as one file — re-importable anywhere |
FEN — positions
| Gesture | Use |
|---|---|
Copy the FEN (Cmd + Shift + F) | The displayed position, on one line — for a forum, an article, another program |
| The position editor | Build a position piece by piece, or by pasting a FEN — the starting point of a study |
Exporting a position as an image
Beyond text, Régence exports any position as a PNG image — for a lesson, an article, a message. The diagram uses your board theme and the current orientation (if the board is flipped, so is the image).
| Gesture | Result |
|---|---|
| File > Export > Copy the position as an image | The diagram to the clipboard — paste it straight into a chat, an email, a document |
| File > Export > Save the position as an image… | A dated PNG file, on disk |
| Copy as image, in the position editor | The diagram of the position being built |
The PDF report’s diagrams use the same rendering.