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Subject: Re: Could the GM-Book by Deville be limited to only 12 moves ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:00:18 11/26/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 20:10:28, David Dahlem wrote:

>On November 25, 2003 at 16:49:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On November 25, 2003 at 16:26:14, swaminathan natarajan wrote:
>>
>>>you too can create opening book of your own in Pgn
>>>
>>>simply by selecting the games available in net and in database
>>>
>>>selecting GM games with 1-0 result for white and 0-1 for black...collect them
>>>alland add to new pgn file,the game opening style should be good.
>>
>>Thanks, I have done that in the past and I'm doing it now during this Graz
>>tourney too. What I was refering to is instead of having the complete game of
>>the GM2001.PGN file just the first 12 moves is sufficient from all those GM
>>games and it would be less bulky. I can do it but it would take me a while,
>>probably 2 hours. I started doing it but I stopped after 5 minutes :-)
>>
>
>There is a much faster workaround to do this, using any test editor with the
>search and replace feature. This is how i do it. Just load the pgn into the text
>editor, use search and replace to replace all occurances of the thirteenth move
>number, 13. with an asterisk, *. Then i copy the games from this pgn into a
>temporary chessbase database, copy them back to an empty pgn file, and there you
>have it, all games truncated to 12 moves. It might also be possible to use
>programs other than chessbase interfaces, although i have only used Hiarcs,
>Fritz, etc.
>
>Regards
>Dave

Can you Email me the truncated GM2001.PGN? I would appreciate it very much.

Jorge



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