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Subject: Re: Search for a tool

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 17:51:40 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 20:43:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

Too bad.. how sad..



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