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Subject: Re: Search for a tool

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:43:27 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 20:40:17, chandler yergin wrote:

>On October 13, 2005 at 20:35:37, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 13, 2005 at 18:56:51, chandler yergin wrote:
>>
>>>On October 13, 2005 at 18:52:09, Randall Shane wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 13, 2005 at 18:01:30, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>You m st first 'create a file called Fischer.pgn
>>>>>Make sure this is yout 'write' Database
>>>>>After searching and highlighting the games
>>>>>save to this.
>>>>
>>>>That would work for extracting Fischer's games.
>>>>
>>>>This doesn't work very well to extract everybody's games -- if there are, for
>>>>example, 5000 different players in a DB of 6 million games, you REALLY wouldn't
>>>>want to manually perform the above interactive operation for 5000 players.
>>>>
>>>>A batch solution, rather than an interactive solution, is what's needed.
>>>>To the best of my knowledge, the Chessbase interface does not support automated
>>>>batch operations.  I'd be shocked if any existing interactive chess DB supported
>>>>that.
>>>
>>>You don't have Chessbase do you?!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Why would you make that extrapolation?
>>
>>>Why do you deny what I know?
>>
>>Where did he do that?
>>
>>>I use it every day!
>>
>>Thanks for sharing.
>>
>>>In Mega99  Database there are over 85,000 Players.
>>>Doing what I posted takes a few seconds..
>>
>>But that is NOT what the original poster asked for.
>>
>>If you can do one player in 7 seconds and you can process 24 hours a day then
>>processing 85000 players takes a full week with no eating and no sleeping and no
>>breaks.
>>
>>That's the problem.  The OP does not want to extract a single player from his
>>database.  He wants to extract all of them.  And he wants them collected into
>>all the games for each individual player.
>
>All he has to do is  Open the Database go to the toolbar.
>"Search" for whatever player he wants...
>It will list all those games.
>Highlight them
>"Save" to the Name.pgn
>It takes seconds...
>If he wants all the games of 10 players
>it may take 2 minutes.
>Big Deal!

How long will it take to do 85,000 players?  That is what he wants.



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