combine various pgn files

[Shankar Thyagarajan]

Hi all,

how do you combine different pgn files into one master file. Is there a
chess program that lets you append the saved games (*.pgn ) into one Pgn
file. I have a few saved games in pgn format and I want to load them into
one file.

To make my question more clear, the games DBs from various sites have one
pgn file containing various individual games. How do they accomplish this ?.

thanks for the response.

[Benjamin Trent]

And this one time, at band camp, on Wed, 03 Oct 2001 00:15:35 GMT, "Shankar
Thyagarajan" <sthyag...@mediaone.net> started telling everyone that:

>how do you combine different pgn files into one master file. Is there a
>chess program that lets you append the saved games (*.pgn ) into one Pgn
>file. I have a few saved games in pgn format and I want to load them into
>one file.

If you only really have "a few," you could always do it by hand. PGN files are
just text files -- you can open them in notepad (or some equivalent if you're
not using Windows) and just copy/paste. Just separate each of the games by a
space (I'll put an example at the bottom of this email) and the PGN reader
(winboard, chessbase -- whatever you use) will do the rest.

Example of two games in one PGN file:

[Event "New Jersey State Open Championship"]
[Site "East Orange, NJ USA"]
[Date "1957.09.02"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Robert J. Fischer"]
[Black "J. Sherwin"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3 Nc6 4. g3 Nf6 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Nbd2 Rb8 8. Re1
d6 9. c3 b6 10. d4 Qc7 11. e5 Nd5 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Ne4 c4 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15.
Ng5 Nce7 16. Qc2 Ng6 17. h4 Nf6 18. Nxh7 Nxh7 19. h5 Nh4 20. Bf4 Qd8 21. gxh4
Rb7 22. h6 Qxh4 23. hxg7 Kxg7 24. Re4 Qh5 25. Re3 f5 26. Rh3 Qe8 27. Be5+ Nf6
28. Qd2 Kf7 29. Qg5 Qe7 30. Bxf6 Qxf6 31. Rh7+ Ke8 32. Qxf6 Rxh7 33. Bc6+ 1-0

[Event "Portoroz Interzonal"]
[Site "Portoroz, Yugoslavia"]
[Date "1958.08.16"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Robert J. Fischer"]
[Black "Bent Larsen"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Nc6 9. Bc4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Bb3 Qa5 12. O-O-O b5 13. Kb1 b4 14. Nd5 Bxd5
15. Bxd5 Rac8 16. Bb3 Rc7 17. h4 Qb5 18. h5 Rfc8 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. g4 a5 21. g5
Nh5 22. Rxh5 gxh5 23. g6 e5 24. gxf7+ Kf8 25. Be3 d5 26. exd5 Rxf7 27. d6 Rf6
28. Bg5 Qb7 29. Bxf6 Bxf6 30. d7 Rd8 31. Qd6+ 1-0

And that's it.
Just make sure you save the files as .pgn and not .txt and everything should
work out fine. There's probably a program out there that will do this for you,
though, but I've never had to use one, so I don't know of any. =) Good luck!

-Ben

[Jeff Foster]

Slap all the PGN files in one directory. Run the command prompt. Go to the
directory.

type "copy *.pgn c:\verybigfile.pgn"

And all the files are combined into one master file in c:\verybigfile.pgn

jeff
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[Paul Onstad]

NORMAL32 will do this and proof the games in the process. It's just a matter
of dropping a PGN file on its icon, then pressing the "Append" button.

http://www.sihope.com/~ponstad/

-Paul

[Mike Leahy]

Bookup 2000 Express ($29) will search any number of
PGN files as if they were one large file. It will
also merge as many PGN files as you want into a
single positional database so that every single
position from every game is stored together; most
handy when the games are annotated.

Mike Leahy
"The Database Man!"
http://www.bookup.com

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