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Subject: Re: Search for a tool

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:04:55 10/13/05

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On October 13, 2005 at 20:47:44, chandler yergin wrote:

>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.
>Oh.. he wants individual files for 85,000 players?
>Then how fast can he go to the toolbar and push the button for each?
>That's how long it will take.
>He can also go to the toolbar and select "Players"
>It will list them alphabetically for him, and he can select which ones he wants.
>Or.. he can select Tournaments and it will list these in chronological order for
>him.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day.  Think about it.
ChessBase is not the right tool for the job, unless you are a complete buffoon.
Either that or the most tireless and careful human on the planet.

Besides which, I wrote a program to do it and posted a link.




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