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

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 08:17:24 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 08:00:18, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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

Hi Jorge

I would send you the truncated GM2001.PGN, but i don't have it. I don't even
have the complete GM2001.PGN. I am using a pgn database i created myself.

Regards
Dave



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