NAME¶
pgn-extract - a Portable Game Notation (PGN) extractor
SYNOPSIS¶
pgn-extract [flags] file.pgn [file.pgn ...]
DESCRIPTION¶
pgn-extract is a free, open-source program pgn-extract, which is designed
to support the processing, searching and extraction of chess games from files
written in PGN format. There are several ways to specify the criteria on which
to extract: textual move sequences, the position reached after a sequence of
moves, information in the tag fields, and material balance in the ending. Full
ANSI C source and a 32-bit Windows binary for the program are available under
the terms of the GNU General Public License. The program includes a semantic
analyser which will report errors in game scores and it is also able to detect
duplicate games found in one or more of its input files.
The range of input move formats accepted is fairly wide and includes recognition
of lower-case piece letters for English and upper-case piece letters for Dutch
and German. The default output is in English Standard Algebraic Notation
(SAN), although there is some support for output in different notations.
Extracted games may be written out either including or excluding comments, NAGs,
and variations. Games may be given ECO classifications derived from the
accompanying file eco.pgn, or a customised version provided by the user.
Plus, lots of other useful features that have gradually found their way into
what was once a relatively simple program!
OPTIONS¶
Run
pgn-extract -h to get all the options.
A complete description of each option can be found in
/usr/share/doc/pgn-extract/help.html
AUTHOR¶
Pgn-extract was written by David Barnes <D.J.Barnes@ukc.ac.uk>.
This manual page was written by Peter van Rossum <petervr@debian.org> and
Vincent Legout <vlegout@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
system.