Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 14:37:40 07/14/02
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On July 14, 2002 at 17:01:46, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On July 14, 2002 at 14:25:09, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On July 14, 2002 at 12:42:31, Steve Coladonato wrote: >> >>>On July 13, 2002 at 14:17:54, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >>> >>>>On July 13, 2002 at 12:44:05, Will Singleton wrote: >>>> >>>>>From what I can see, CA 6.1 exports game bases in a pseudo-pgn format. Does >>>>>anyone know of a program which will read these and output standard pgn? >>>>> >>>>>Will >>>> >>>>If it is the special escape strings, you can turn it off with unmarking >>>>tools\options\general\use ca markup in pgn. >>>> >>>>For other problems you can use the extract32 tool. I guess you will find it on >>>>most download pages. >>>> >>>>oddGM >>> >>>The biggest problem I have is that CA exports a "Z0" symbol in the pgn file. I >>>don't know what it is but SCID doesn't like it. Do you happen to know what this >>>symbol is? Unmarking the "use ca markup in pgn" option doesn't remove it. >>> >>>Steve >> >>Hi. >> >>I don't think I have seen this, do you have an sample? >> >>Anyway after you turn off the marker you have to restart CA to get it to work. >> >>I have made a command for pgn-files in the explorer assosiation box so I can run >>a converter tool just by right clicking on them and select a convert command. >> >>Here is the cmd file that is running: >> >>del tmp0tmp.pgn >>d:\Utility\PGNBeauty.exe %1 tmp0tmp.pgn >>del %1 >>d:\utility\Extract32.exe -a%1 tmp0tmp.pgn >>del tmp0tmp.pgn >> >> >>PGNBeaty is just a little tool to remove unneeded pgn headers (empty headers). >> >>I run it whenever I shall share some pgn-files with other's. >> >> >>I took some heavy gamefiles with comment and variation but could not find your >>"Z0" in any of them. >> >>Odd Gunnar > > >If you export the "Elite" database to PGN format, you should get a "Z0" symbol >at the following game. > >Error reading move in game Polgar Judit (GM) (HUN) - Granda Zuniga Julio E >(PER), 1995: Kh8 > >There are many games in the file that have that "Z0" symbol. I didn't restart >CA after turning off the marker so that may be where the problem is. I'll check >it and get back to you. (I'm mainly running Linux and have to reboot to >Windows). > >Steve Ok, I see it. 30.Nd6 Bxf6 31.Qxf7+ Z0 ( 31...Kh8 32.Ne8 Ra6 33.Bf8 $18 ) 1-0 Z0 is a nullmove. As I can see so isn't this covered by the standard. Chessbase have their own implemation of these too. I don't know about scid, you could try to see how it save a null move in pgn and use a replace tool on the file. I didn't follow the pgn debat on rgcc but if this wasn't up someone should suggest some sort of nullmove/anymove for Steven Edwards so he gets it in when he revise the standard. Hopefully with something that is easy to do a text replace on CA/CB files to get them compatible. Odd Gunnar
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