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Subject: Re: Program for conversion from pgn to epd format desired

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:53:06 07/06/01

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On July 06, 2001 at 07:40:43, Leen Ammeraal wrote:

>Does anyone know if there is a utility program,
>available for downloading, that converts
>game files to epd files?

Single game:
epd2diag by Manfred Rosenboom is very nice.  It will also handle junky or quirky
headers.
http://www.rebel.nl/epd2diag.htm

Multiple games:
you will need either the sankit or the OCD toolkit, both by Steven J. Edwards.
Both of them are completely intolerant of things like special characters in the
headers (so, for instance, scandinavian games give them fits).  But they can
convert thousands of games all at once.  I just run the games through a filter
that gives them all dopey headers like this:
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]

and then you won't have much problem.
OCD:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-utils/ocd/

Sankit:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-utils/sankit/

The commands for both of them are pretty strange.  For instance, to convert pgn
to epd with sankit, it would look like this:
E:\pgn>sankit
Welcome to the SAN Kit.
Revised: 1994.02.22

: tfge wcl.pgn wcl.epd

>Each position
>(except the last one), together with the next move,
>should appear as a line of text in the
>resulting epd file.
>It would not be a serious problem for me if
>only the positions were converted to fen format.
>Leen Ammeraal



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