Author: Randall Shane
Date: 18:06:38 10/13/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 20:49:09, chandler yergin wrote: >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? Hmm, my life isn't tedious. Life shouldn't be, in general. One could use the proper tool for the job and not worry about unnecessary tedium. Chessbase is a good tool for many chess database activities -- but not for all of them. Definitely not for the job above. -- Randy Shane
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