What’s good freeware (web-based is fine, download is fine) that you & your students are using right now (or have used in the past) to send pgn files back and forth? Students should be able to create PGN files, send them, and read the PGN files they get in return.
The ability to display variations is essential.
Good documentation that a bright sixth grader can understand would be appreciated. Ease of use is important: students should be able to create a text file with a pgn extension without too much juggling.
Vendor-agnostic freeware would be a plus, but isn’t essential.
I’ve used WinBoard first as a PGN reader, but found it can create files as well. It can also create information for creating a diagram which can be printed, see earlier thread.
SCID (scid.sourceforge.net/) is a free database program that has installers for Windows, Linux and Mac (I use Windows). It can handle PGN files without blinking an eye, but sadly might be a little too feature heavy for your purposes, giving it an at-times steep learning curve. Still, it might be worth a shot if you can’t find anything else, and would be good for students who want to use it as a more in-depth tool (it includes a few engines for analysis/training games).
Ouch: there doesn’t seem to be anything simple that fits the bill, (I can play shogi in WinBoard, but I can’t create variations??? Or am I missing something…?)