Author: Michael D. Sharpe
Date: 20:24:18 04/30/99
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On April 30, 1999 at 09:33:38, Bernie Shapiro wrote: >A few weeks ago I posted this message, but so far no results.I have asked a few >programmers but no answers. I am sure that somewhere such a program exists. How >do european publishers convert classics written in Descriptive notation into >Algabraic notation for the American market? It is economically infeasible to do >it manually. > >bernie Descriptive Notation can be converted to PGN using the following method: Use ChessBd to parse the DN moves and save the file as a file with a .pgn prefix. ChessBd is shareware available from http://www.dfong.com/chessbd together with instructions as to how to register the program. ChessBd will change DN to something like: 1. P/K2-K4 P/K2-K4 2. P/KB2-KB4 P/K4xP/KB5 3. N/KN1-KB3 1-0 I then used Filemate which will read this form of PGN and which will display the moves as regular PGN. I then exported the moves to the clipboard and then imported the moves from the clipboard into a new game which appeared as: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 * Not easy but one way of dealing with my old games in DN!
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