Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 22:39:58 10/30/00
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On October 30, 2000 at 23:39:46, Pete Galati wrote: >On October 30, 2000 at 22:24:11, chris sergel wrote: > >>On October 30, 2000 at 20:38:17, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On October 30, 2000 at 19:21:27, chris sergel wrote: >>> >>>>Does anybody know a way to automatically transpose correspondence notation >>>>(numeric) into pgn notation for reporting game results? >>>>Not only is it tedious to rewrite the whole game for a different notation, but I >>>>think it also leads to many clerical errors. >>>>Surely there must be a program that can do this. >>> >>>I'm not familier with correspondence notation. By numeric, do you mean like 1. >>>d2-d4? >>> >>>Try reading it into Crafty "read [filename]" and then saving it to a new pgn >>>file "savegame [filename]". Crafty won't append to an existing file, it would >>>overwrite it I think. >>> >>>Pete >> >> >>Numeric notation that they use for international email is very strange. It uses >>to numeric coordiantes for each move. Thus e2-e4 is 5254. An opening might >>look like 1. 5254 5756 2. 4244 4745 3. 2133 6824 would be the French Winawer. >> Everybody I know hates this notation, and many agree to use algebraic notation >>and not tell anybody. It's very easy to make a clerical and lose a game. After >>going through all this we have to rewrite the game in pgn notation for >>submission. I was hoping there might be a program of some sort that could do >>that. > >Oh man, that is some brutal stuff there, I wouldn't agree to play a game using >that system. That reminds me of the system you had to use to move with that >program that Eugene Nalimov posted the code for. > >I tried, Crafty wouldn't read that (worth a try) and I don't see anything in >SAN's help that indicates that it could (but I didn't try). > >Have you tried looking through the utilities available at the Pittsburg Chess >Archives? http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/index2.html I know it's a long >shot, but they might have something. > >Pete There is this story about an avid correspondence chess player who got arrested during WW II because they thought he was a devious spy, sending his wicked messages in secret code this way.. I know that ECTool, http://www.ectool.nu/, can automatically send its moves in numeric notation but I don't if it can convert back these numeric moves, maybe only single moves. Maybe somebody on the notice board there would know how to do that. Eelco
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