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Date: 31 Dec 2005 03:35:03
From: zenpawn
Subject: PGN without $x symbols
Whenever I create a PGN file using ChessBase 8, it uses $x in place of
!, ?, etc., symbols.

How do I get it to create a human-readable PGN file without these
annoying $x's?


Thanks!





 
Date: 03 Jan 2006 13:41:52
From: gimmick
Subject: Re: PGN without $x symbols
I've enhanced the MyChessViewer applet as seen here www.mychess.com to
include the fritz NAGs. www.night-ray.com/chess/games

I've taken the Fritz analysis and placed it in a PGN... the Java applet
is reading them directly without modification. MyChessViewer official
release crashes with certain Fritz output and doesn't handle all the
NAGs. I've sent my code to the author and he's thinking about making my
changes official.

Anyways, you can download my classes and source code from the website
here: www.night-ray.com/chess/games/ChessViewer.zip

In there you'll find all the NAGs, official & fritz, so you could use
that with your search and replace.

zenpawn wrote:
> Whenever I create a PGN file using ChessBase 8, it uses $x in place of
> !, ?, etc., symbols.
>
> How do I get it to create a human-readable PGN file without these
> annoying $x's?
>
>
> Thanks!
>


 
Date: 01 Jan 2006 07:14:28
From: zenpawn
Subject: Re: PGN without $x symbols
Regarding the suggestion to unannotate the game or database, I want to
keep the annotations, but would prefer them in human-readable form.
And believe it or not, my friend appears to have a PGN reader that is
unfamiliar with NAGs. I guess I have to use the 'ole "Find and
Replace" technique. :( According to the PGN spec kindly referenced
above, it appears a limited set of symbols, the exclam, question mark,
etc., can remain in the so-called "Import" format of PGN. ChessBase
lets you export to plain text, but it isn't as understandable to PGN
readers. I was just hoping, if I keep my annotations to the limited
set of the "Import" PGN format, that I could get the best of both
worlds, i.e., a human and computer-readable PGN. I just wanted to make
sure I wasn't missing something in ChessBase. Thanks all.



 
Date: 31 Dec 2005 18:58:32
From: mate-in-30
Subject: Re: PGN without $x symbols
zenpawn wrote:
> Whenever I create a PGN file using ChessBase 8, it uses $x in place of
> !, ?, etc., symbols.
>
> How do I get it to create a human-readable PGN file without these
> annoying $x's?
>
>
> Thanks!

Those symbols (NAGS "Numerical Annotation Glyphs ") are annotations in
PGN format ...control shift y will remove them in a single game

Alternativey, to clear the entire database, I suggest you create a new
databsse and copy the games you want unannotated to this database,
right click and select >TOOLS>UNANOTATE DATABASE. Use that database to
export games into PGN format without the NAGS.



 
Date: 31 Dec 2005 20:05:40
From: Anders Thulin
Subject: Re: PGN without $x symbols
zenpawn wrote:
> Whenever I create a PGN file using ChessBase 8, it uses $x in place of
> !, ?, etc., symbols.

Is that wrong?

> How do I get it to create a human-readable PGN file without these
> annoying $x's?

You can't. PGN files use $x for annotation symbols. Anything else isn't
PGN.

Perhaps you need to explore what other file formats are support --
perhaps some text-format may do what you want?

--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath



 
Date: 31 Dec 2005 18:02:51
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: PGN without $x symbols
zenpawn <truepatriot@metrocast.net > wrote:
> Whenever I create a PGN file using ChessBase 8, it uses $x in place of
> !, ?, etc., symbols.
>
> How do I get it to create a human-readable PGN file without these
> annoying $x's?

There is, as far as I'm aware, no option in Fritz to do this. You can use
a text editor to search and replace, though. The full list of the $x
symbols is at

http://www.very-best.de/pgn-spec.htm#10.

(The final dot is part of the URL.)


Dave.

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