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Subject: Re: Looking for database

Author: Bela Evans

Date: 09:25:45 04/18/05

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On April 17, 2005 at 17:45:39, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On April 17, 2005 at 15:16:38, Tony Nichols wrote:
>
>>Hi, Pete
>>You can easily create your own database. Download the week in chess databases as
>>far back as you want. Sort games by rating and copy those games into a new
>>database. Presto! You have your desired database. I suggest you sort by >2400.
>>Some of the games by lower rated players will show you how to play against
>>unusual moves.
>>Regards
>>Tony
>
>I had thought of this, but putting all the smaller files into one database in
>SCID is very time consuming.
>
>I wish there was a way to do a mass import of like 200 separate files.
>
>Peter

Hi - if you download the twic files as pgn, then in windows you can merge all
the pgn files together very easily from a dos prompt.  Something like: copy
*.pgn big.pgn  - that will copy all pgn files in a directory into one big file
call big.pgn.



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