Author: chandler yergin
Date: 18:27:50 10/13/05
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On October 13, 2005 at 20:58:46, Randall Shane 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 do you deny what I know? >>I use it every day! >>In Mega99 Database there are over 85,000 Players. >>Doing what I posted takes a few seconds.. > >There's no need to fly off the handle. > >What I said does not contradict what you said. I was just pointing out that, >using the method you stated above, in order to get a separate PGN file for each >and every in a database such as Mega99 would require one to perform your >procedure 85,000 times. Assuming 20 seconds per player (which I feel is a >radical lower bound, considering that one has to create a PGN output file, >select the games from a sorted list, and export the selected games), you're >talking, at a bare minimum, 472 hours, just short of 20 days. 20 days in front >of the computer. And you'd have to do each operation 85,000 times. > >The beauty of a batch operation (such as a modified version of PGN extract would >be presumably able to do), is that one can set it, kick it off, and come back >later. It could probably do the job in a few hours at worst, because it doesn't >have to deal with a UI and being controlled by a person using that UI. > >BTW, I have Chessbase 7.0, just haven't used it recently, and I never bothered >to update it. That, however, is irrelevant to my analysis of your suggested >procedure. > >Chessbase is a extremely useful tool, but it wasn't designed to do everything. >Different tools exist for different purposes. > >If Chessbase does have a batch mode where, with ONE operation, it can split the >MegaDB, for example, into 85000 PGN files, each file with all the games by a >single player, white and black, Why would you want to? then I'm wrong and I'll cheerfully admit it -- >but your procedure given in your note above does not address that issue. > >-- Randy Shane
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