Portable Game Notation

Filename extension
.pgn
Internet media type
application/vnd.chess-pgn
Developed bySteven J. Edwards
Initial release1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Type of formatChess game record

Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software.