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Subject: Re: Chess base light demo question?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 07:51:05 11/27/99

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On November 27, 1999 at 03:55:18, Seth Hodgkins wrote:

>I recently downloaded the chess base light with the game database that you can
>also download containing thousands of GM Games.( unbelievable that its free).
>For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to get the games downloaded onto
>the chess base, but I finally figured that out.(you had to unzip them with
>winzip then add them)  I'm currently trying to transfer some of my games that
>I've copied from Chessmaster onto the CBlight demo.  I took the games on the
>Chess master and converted them to .pgn format(I'm not ever sure if that was the
>right thing to do?).  Problem that I'm haveing is getting these games transfered
>to CBL all in one file.  When I load a game onto CBL I can only load them 1 game
>at a time, and then each time they are put in a differed database file.  So if I
>load one at a time I get each folder containing only one game. My hope is that
>someone has some experience with this can help explain what I need to do to load
>all my games into one file i.e. my games.pgn or something like that.  As a side
>note I'm feeling a little overwelmed at the moment with all of the functions of
>CBL but at the same time intrigued.  I'm not currently able to use it to its
>fullest potential, but it looks to me like it could be a useful tool.  What are
>some of your oppinions?

There's allways been problems with CM pgn files.  I'd suggest that you use CM to
view your CM files, it would save you some aggrivation.

Pete



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