Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:53:41 02/05/04
Go up one level in this thread
On February 05, 2004 at 23:21:17, Luis Smith wrote: >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. ChessBase products will calculate and add Elo figures. SCID will calculate ratings, but refuses to write them into the file in some circumstances (not sure what the actual rules are).
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.