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Subject: Re: Search for a tool

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 17:49:09 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 20:39:22, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 13, 2005 at 18:09:21, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>The beauty of Chessbase is it automatically converts games from one format to
>>the other. So if you need a CBH or PGN database you simply create one and copy
>>games into it. To convert games into the standard CBH format simply copy them
>>into a data base with that extension.  .cbh  or .pgn
>
>Yes, I know.  I do it all the time.  It can also calculate the Elo of players
>and store the value back to the PGN.
>
>The original poster wants to take his full database and split it into tens of
>thousands of files -- each file containing all the games for each individual
>player.
>
>Let me reiterate:
>The OP does not want to create one file or 5 files or a dozen files.  He wants
>to create thousands and thousands without having to do any manual steps.  He
>wants a new file for each player, with all of the games that player has ever
>played that are stored in the database to be written out to a new file
>identified by the player's name for each and every player.
>
>So, if there are 85,000 players in the database, then there will be 85,000 files
>created.  Is it clear?
>
>You can do this with ChessBase, but it would be rather tedious, wouldn't you
>agree?
  Life is tedious.. should we stop because of it?



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