Author: David Mitchell
Date: 20:04:44 01/06/06
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On January 06, 2006 at 14:22:01, Henrik Dinesen wrote: >On January 06, 2006 at 12:38:49, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On January 06, 2006 at 10:44:59, David Mitchell wrote: >> >>>Rolf, >>> >>>If you can make a few examples of EXACTLY what you want pasted, and how, I could >>>code you up a little "super paster", to save your info inside the game, itself. >>>Yes, a program. >>> >>>Be explicit though in your examples, Rolf. I just would need a small few games >>>with your notes to be moved, for testing, and full understanding of how you want >>>the notes saved, in the game. >>> >>>Dave >> >> >>It's a huge problem: >> >>1) think about the headers in CB. you have name header, tournament name, >>tournament sites, sources, commentaries etc. years ago that was different: CB >>hadnt different data bases (files) for these parameters or variables bt they had >>a fixed header that looked like this: a fixed number in the database for the >>game, then the two players whirte and black and then a second line with the >>whole tournament, site and seperated by a semikolon the source. The time came >>when CB changed their format and also INFORMATOR changed his by just pasting the >>number of INF and number of game - like 45/544 - into the notation itself before >>the first move as a comment so to speak. At the time they had sort of routine >>that this could be pasted. I forgot the details. You know, this is forced by the >>new format where a particular tournament has one single name say INTEL or so >>with the site Tilburg. Now in my old tournament line I have this: Tilburg 45/544 >>for a particular single game with these numbers. That means in the end for over >>200 games I have the same number of tournaments. Tilburg with that number. This >>is what I want to be corrected. As I said it is possible to delete all these >>numbers in seconds but then I lose the nice numbers to quote from INF. INF is >>the highest possible game commentary available. So that I want to keep the >>numbers to be able to make quotations. Well, tongue in cheek, in general. Not >>that I absolutely needed it. :) >> >>2) Now the even worse problem. CB has a nice feature called ripping databases of >>games you dont have yet. That goes automatically. Yes, if you have correct naked >>tournament names. I with my 200 names have all these seperate pseudo tournament >>for a single event and my ripping cant detect if it's a real double because I >>assume that CB works with the tournament lines in the first place for a fast >>ripping of million bases. - Since you cant know the CB code I see no possibility >>how you want to write a routine to clean up the tournament and then past the >>content into the first commentary line in the notation. Famous Nunn once had >>such features that substituted CB programs in important extents. Suddenly you >>could change names and tournaments at once - all on DOS level... Nunn always >>wrote that he had done that for himself... Ok, fine, if you can do it for >>yourself and then give it to the community in person of Rolf, fine! Thanks! :) >> >>3) I would say I give 15 € for such a nice tool. - Or just let me be your >>manager and I negotiate with CB and we two become millionaires and then could >>marry Marilyn Monroe. How's that? > > >My guess here would be, that David would work with the pgn format. When the base >is corverted in CB9 the info is kept, also with reverse conversion. >Well, just my guess, since that's how I do "things" to bases that I can't do in >the DB-programs. > >Regards >Henrik I'm not as anxious to meet Marilyn Monroe, now that's she's been dead for a number of years, as you might think. :) :) This may sound odd to you, Rolf, but I don't care anything about the CB format, nor do I own the program. I just enjoy programming, and playing. If you can show me what you have in a small sample, and what you want, we can proceed. Henrik's guess is a good one, but I can't be sure of anything until I see the sample, and what you want. Dave
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