Is there any free software which allows you to save your games? If I wanted to play correspondence chess, and keep track of the game on my computer, is there any free software that will allow this? It appears that ChessBase will not allow you to do this unless you upgrade.

JoeBagaDonuts,

Actually, the Free Chess Club at PC allows you to download the PGN. (Portable Game Notation) of your games either during the game or after, and it saves your finished games to your free account on the server, so you can pull up a game a year from now, for example.

Also, the games are off the clock, some players like to move once a day, in the evenings we have a small group that plays maybe 2 or 3 games in an evening.

You are of course welcome to join, no software to download. Though if you'd like to view your downloaded games you will need a PGN reader, Winboard, or, We use DGT Chess Theatre, each are free to download and use. Plus there are other free PGN programs out there. Maybe Google?

Good Luck!,
PlanetChess.org

These two are my favourites and both are free. SCID is a bit more stable when dealing with huge databases while chessdb has a number of additional features such as automatic downloads which can come in very handy. Chessdb looks very similar to SCID and uses the same data files. Both programs import and export pgn.

Scid - Downloads

ChessDB - a free Chess Database

Sourceforge [EDIT:Oops I meant chessdb not Sourceforge - Crash] allows you to download automatically from TWIC and a 3.5 million game database in the tools menu.

If you want some large databases to download take a look at my suggestions on the following thread:

Hello...Chess Mom Needs Some Advice...

Crash

Oh, cool- chessdb has built-in emailing for correspondence games. That's cool!