pgn games

[PulsarMike]

hi,

I am the author of the winboard engine pulsar but this post is actualy about a blitzin plugin called autogame http://www.adam16mr.org/autogame13-beta.html

Autogame will now log any games you observe on icc to pgn after they finish if you catch the result. It has one limitiation though. Icc doesnt provide the eco code. I was wondering if there were pgn utilities that can make a pgn file good as far as eco codes go. Let say i mark eco as "*" and the utility would change it if appropriate to C33.

Also does anyone know of any code that i can use that might assign an eco, the program is written in c++. With position search you wont need an eco to find games of an opening in the databaseof game you observed but its nice to have.

thanks
Mike

[Norm Pollock]

hi,

I am the author of the winboard engine pulsar but this post is actualy about a blitzin plugin called autogame http://www.adam16mr.org/autogame13-beta.html

Autogame will now log any games you observe on icc to pgn after they finish if you catch the result. It has one limitiation though. Icc doesnt provide the eco code. I was wondering if there were pgn utilities that can make a pgn file good as far as eco codes go. Let say i mark eco as "*" and the utility would change it if appropriate to C33.

Also does anyone know of any code that i can use that might assign an eco, the program is written in c++. With position search you wont need an eco to find games of an opening in the databaseof game you observed but its nice to have.

thanks
Mike

I know of 2 approaches. The conservative approach is to use pgn-extract. This program can insert very standard ECO codes without regard to transpositions. The other approach is to use SCID which takes transpositions into account, and gives you the option to use 4 character ECO codes (more precise) if you prefer. Since SCID is a database program, you have to export a pgn file when finished.

[Olivier Deville]

Hello Mike !

I have added a Pulsar logo

You were using the old RWBC logo, which was likely to confuse people.

Olivier

[PulsarMike]

ahh cool. I just picked an image didnt realize that you could get one made for your program. But its much nicer with pulsar in my logo.

thanks
Mike