Grand Pgns

[Norm Pollock]

I have reorganized and renamed my pgn database collections, and have added 54K more games to them.

As it stands now:

GrandP.pgn, games from 1981 to 1990, 101K games, 17M download size.

GrandQ.pgn, games from 1991 to 1998, 189K games, 33M download size.

GrandR.pgn (formerly called Grand07.pgn), games from 1999 to 2006, 195K games, 36M download size.

All games are long time-control, 2300+ elo, human v human games. Filtered out were rapid, blitz, blind, simul, exhib, computer, Internet, email, duplicate, 25 moves or less, short time-control, FEN, no result, etc, games. Errors were fixed.

The links are on Jim Ablett's site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

In addition a new utility program "addElo.exe" is available at Jim Ablett's site. This utility enabled me to add the 54K additional games. It fills in misssing elo tags for players who already have an existing elo tag in the pgn file.

-Norm

[Volker Pittlik]

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In addition a new utility program "addElo.exe" ...

Thanks for the games and tools Norm!

I use the games for some experiments with books. To use them saves me a lot of time.

Is there any chance to get a Linux version of the tools? I tried "trim" with wine and it crashed badly.

Regards

Volker

[Norm Pollock]

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In addition a new utility program "addElo.exe" ...

Thanks for the games and tools Norm!

I use the games for some experiments with books. To use them saves me a lot of time.

Is there any chance to get a Linux version of the tools? I tried "trim" with wine and it crashed badly.

Regards

Volker

It sounds like a great idea but I cannot do it myself. Any suggestions?

[Volker Pittlik]

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... Any suggestions?

I can try it. Maybe we can can start with one tool. (of course I keep to source confidential.)

Volker

[Norm Pollock]

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... Any suggestions?

I can try it. Maybe we can can start with one tool. (of course I keep to source confidential.)

Volker

Hi Volker,

Check your email. You should have 1 source program attached.

-Norm

[Norm Pollock]

Hi Volker and other Linux users,

For anyone wishing to use my "40H" programs in a non-Windows platform, including Linux, I have good news. As long as you have some sort of Java Environment software, you can use the ".class" files for the "40H" programs on your Platform. The ".class" files are not standalone programs, but running within a Java Environment, you would not notice the difference.

I know there is a free download of Java Environments (JRE) for several different platforms from sun.com. Another place is Eclipse at http://www.eclipse.org/. However I have not used the latter.

Here is a direct (beta) link for the class files for "40H"

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/ten/40Hclasses.rar

-Norm

edit- You could also use the ".class" files in Windows if you have Java Environment software.

[Volker Pittlik]

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I know there is a free download of Java Enviroments (JRE) for several different platforms from sun.com. Another place is Eclipse at http://www.eclipse.org/. However I have not used the latter.
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The simple usual runtime environment from Sun is enough. Eclipse is a very powerful (and very big) development environment. It is much to big use it for running java apps. But if you write programs in java it is something of the best you can get.

Volker

[Norm Pollock]

Here is some help for using JRE (Java Runtime Environment) in Windows:

To use the simple Sun JRE (Java Runtime Environment) in Windows you could have all the files in one folder, but that's not practical. Better is to set 2 environment variables (Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables). Set "Path" for where the bin folder of the Java installation is located, and set "CLASSPATH" for where the class files are located. Then you can use a command like:

java eloPgn c.pgn

from the folder just containing c.pgn

-Norm