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Subject: Re: PGN file help

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 20:21:17 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 23:03:50, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 05, 2004 at 22:44:04, Jeff White wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for something that will trim down the header information in a pgn
>>file. Something like this:
>>
>>[Event "?"]
>>[Site "DSB-2.Kongress"]
>>[Date "1881.??.??"]
>>[Round "13"]
>>[White "Blackburne,J"]
>>[Black "Chigorin,M"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ECO "D05"]
>>
>>to something like this:
>>
>>
>>[White "Blackburne,J"]
>>[Black "Chigorin,M"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>
>>Is there something out there that will do this for me with existing pgn files?
>>Doing it with a word processor is very time consuming. Thanks for any help
>>provided.
>
>The above shortening of the header is not allowed by the PGN standard.  There
>are seven mandatory tags:
>Event
>Site
>Date
>Round
>White
>Black
>Result
>
>If you take out any of these, it is no longer a PGN file.
>
>That having been said, it would be very simple to write a filter to do what you
>want.
>
>PGN-Extract by David Barnes will strip out lots of stuff, like comments and PGN
>tags that are not mandatory.
>
>Out of curiosity, why do you want to remove that data?

Hi Dann, do you know of a utility that will input rating data that ELO stat
produces into the PGN header?  I found that ELO stat won't do it, I also did a
web search and didn't come up with much.



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