| |
Main
Date: 21 Sep 2006 14:27:04
From: Terry
Subject: Convert screen shot to PGN
|
Can it be done?
|
|
| |
Date: 22 Sep 2006 12:20:32
From: Terry
Subject: Re: Convert screen shot to PGN
|
David Richerby wrote:
> Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can it be done?
>
> To clarify, do you want to convert a diagram to FEN or a list of moves
> to PGN? Either should, in theory, be possible but the effort required
> to do so would almost certainly exceed the effort of manual
> transcription unless you had many thousands of screenshots.
>
>
> Dave.
>
I was looking up some common mating positions. Many of the web pages I
was searching showed a picture of the starting position. This is what
prompted the question.
I know that PGN is the "standard" I had never heard of FEN, but I
gather by your reply that a FEN is what I am seeking. It is a shame
that online sources don't include both.
What I wanted to be able to do was load the current position (from a
pic) into chessmaster and practice executing the mates.
I also remember reading in a book long ago of a series of common mating
positions. Most of which were attacking the castled position for both
sides.
I think just practicing these would help my game. I never got a rating
from Blitzin but I would say I was a rookie. I could expect a good
game with 1300-1400 players.
|
| |
Date: 22 Sep 2006 11:05:55
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Convert screen shot to PGN
|
Terry <[email protected] > wrote:
> Can it be done?
To clarify, do you want to convert a diagram to FEN or a list of moves
to PGN? Either should, in theory, be possible but the effort required
to do so would almost certainly exceed the effort of manual
transcription unless you had many thousands of screenshots.
Dave.
--
David Richerby Evil Sadistic Dish (TM): it's like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a fine ceramic dish but it wants to
hurt you and it's genuinely evil!
|
| | |
Date: 22 Sep 2006 17:41:04
From: Mike
Subject: Re: Convert screen shot to PGN
|
There is an online java module which converts pgn to Kb2, Rg3,... and vise
versa.
Mike.
"David Richerby" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:N7i*[email protected]
> Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can it be done?
>
> To clarify, do you want to convert a diagram to FEN or a list of moves
> to PGN? Either should, in theory, be possible but the effort required
> to do so would almost certainly exceed the effort of manual
> transcription unless you had many thousands of screenshots.
>
>
> Dave.
>
> --
> David Richerby Evil Sadistic Dish (TM): it's
> like
> www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a fine ceramic dish but it
> wants to
> hurt you and it's genuinely
> evil!
|
| |
Date: 21 Sep 2006 18:46:52
From: Anders Thulin
Subject: Re: Convert screen shot to PGN
|
Terry wrote:
> Can it be done?
Under very special circumstances.
Use a screenshot capable OCR engine, like ABBYY Screenshot Reader.
That will give you the score in reasonably clear text -- you may
have to train the engine, and you may have adjust the screen to show
best resolution possible.
Feed result to a *good* PGN converter. Can't help you here ...
'Format' may help you, but if the screenshot is in descriptive notation,
you're probably out of luck. (If it's in figurine notation, you will
need an trainable OCR engine.)
If you're a good typist, you probably type the score faster.
--
Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath
|
|
