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Subject: Re: How to delete variations in chessbase format

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 13:04:17 07/13/01

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On July 13, 2001 at 15:18:30, William Wentworth wrote:

>On July 13, 2001 at 09:49:46, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2001 at 08:09:56, William Wentworth wrote:
>>
>>>I have a database of chess games in chessbase format .
>>>Almost all of the games contain variations and annotations .
>>>How can I delete the variations and get clean , original games ?
>>>I have Shredder 5.32 by chessbase , Fritz light and chessbase 6 light .
>>>CbStrip by Rob Weir does not work , when I click on that file the DOS console
>>>window flashes open and immediately closes .
>>>
>>>Willy
>>
>>The dos program "Extract" by David Barnes will remove variations, comments, etc.
>>from games in pgn format.
>>Dave
>
>I found "Extract" but that is not for beginners , that is a complicated program.
>In Shredder 5.32 I copied the games to a pgn file.
>I now have the file "games.pgn" with annotations.
>
>What command must I type in the Extract DOS window to delete all
>the annotations in "games.pgn" that in the same folder as Extract.exe ?
>
>Willow

From the Start/Run menu, paste the following line and click the ok button.
You must change the path to the path where your extract.exe is located.

"C:\extract\extract.exe" -N -V -C -onewfile.pgn oldfile.pgn

This will remove  variations and comments from oldfile.pgn and write it to
newfile.pgn. Also it outputs only the seven tag roster for each game.
The excellent readme file with extract will explain this and the other options.
Dave



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