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hi all

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

thanks in advance,
Geno

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

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.

thanks George thanks Norm!