user2069: Apologies for being a noob in this matter - a senior citizen friend of mine is looking for desktop publishing-like software to record chess games (diagrams along with personal reflection). The goal is personal publishing of chess games from their history. He is familiar with MS Word, but not much with other software.
From what I can see, existing software is aimed at creating Portable Game Notation files, which can be played back online, or is a powerful chess game database like Scid.
Is there some software for recording chess games that's closer to MS Word? I'd imagine it basically like a text editor, with a chess board on the side that can be configured with a certain position, then an image of it would be inserted in the text editor. No playback capabilities are required.

user1036: The closest thing I can think of to what you want, though it is still PGN file based, is ChessPad.  http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html.  It's a very basic pgn file editor/viewer which maybe your friend could use standalone, or he could use it to create diagrams which he then pastes into MS Word.

2069: <p>Apologies for being a noob in this matter - a senior citizen friend of mine is looking for desktop publishing-like software to record chess games (diagrams along with personal reflection). The goal is personal publishing of chess games from their history. He is familiar with MS Word, but not much with other software.</p>

<p>From what I can see, existing software is aimed at <a href="http://www.chess.com/analysis-board-editor" rel="nofollow noreferrer">creating Portable Game Notation files</a>, which can be <a href="http://kvchess.com/publish.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">played back online</a>, or is a powerful chess game database like <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1708/simple-programs-for-recording-chess-games-like-ectool-for-ubuntu-and-windo">Scid</a>.</p>

<p>Is there some software for recording chess games that's closer to MS Word? I'd imagine it basically like a text editor, with a chess board on the side that can be configured with a certain position, then an image of it would be inserted in the text editor. No playback capabilities are required.</p>
 1036: <p>The closest thing I can think of to what you want, though it is still PGN file based, is ChessPad.  <a href="http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html</a>.  It's a very basic pgn file editor/viewer which maybe your friend could use standalone, or he could use it to create diagrams which he then pastes into MS Word.</p>
