looking for pgn- utility...

[GenoM]

hi all

i am looking for pgn-utility which can exctract games to 10th move from tournament pgn's.

thanks in advance,
Geno

[George Lyapko]

I have written one in 2003:http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/lgpgntr.zip

Georg Zimmerman in Winboard Forum have asked for utility, which will truncate
a PGN file that each game should be maximum X plies long. Here you are.
This is only a first approach, so it may have bugs. Please report them to me.

Known limitations/shortcuts:

a)game is truncated after comment or illegal move;
b)no long filenames support;
c)no footer result.

Usage:

LGPGNTR <InputFile> <OutputFile> <max.plies>

Enjoy,
George Lyapko

[Norm Pollock]

The chess engine Yace contains a utility that truncates games in a pgn file. It sounds strange, but it has worked whenever I used it.

in a command window launch: yace.exe
inside yace type:

cadiz_pgn thegamefile.pgn gamesuntill40.pgn n 40

where "thegamefile.pgn" is the original file,
"gamesuntil40.pgn" is the output file up to 40 plies,
and "40" is the number of plies which of course you can change.

[GenoM]

thanks George thanks Norm!