PC adds the ability to conduct engine tournaments and improved Polyglot book tuning. ChessDB allows importing of multiple PGNs at one time and uses hypothesis testing (Chi squared test) to help determine if a particular move found in the tree window is better than other possible moves. Scidb - maintained by Gregor Cramer (only compatible with Linux at this time)Įach fork has some aspect to it that is an improvement over the original program.
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There have been several developmental forks from this free and open source program: Scid (Shane's Chess Information Database): A chess database program (and more) created by Shane Hudson and maintained by him until 2004, and then maintained by Pascal Georges.Īmong the things one can do with Scid are:ģ) Filter games via header tags, material, or patterns PGN Scanner can be used to create engine books, and accbook.dll can be incorporated in an engine so that it can use PGN Scanner books. It is possibly more versatile than PGN Extract, though not quite as robust. PGN Scanner: Much like PGN Extract, PGN Scanner (by Gabriel Guillory) is a command line program for extracting data from PGNs.
A few of the many things it can do are:ġ)Remove exact duplicate games as well as removing games containing the same movesĢ)Find games matching a given material balanceįor those who shy away from using the command line, Ferdinand Mosca created an interface for PGN Extract (Windows only) that is easy to use and covers much of the most useful functions of PGN Extract. Barnes for extracting data from PGN files. PGN Extract: A versatile command line program created by David J. I have found Norm's utilities to be extremely valuable. Look at the readme files at Norm's site to see all the available utilities and their descriptions. Among the things you can do with them is:Ħ) Extract specified number of random text lines Norm Pollock Chess Downloads: Norm Pollock has written 66(!) utilities that can be used to edit and extract information from PGNs, EPDs, and regular text files. Tools For PGN Editing And Data Extraction Tools For PGN Editing And Data Extraction.For a more complete list of PGN utilities, I encourage you to check out the Computer Chess Wiki's PGN Reader/Viewer/Writer List and miscellaneous tools. Over the years, people have created and shared utilities that allow chess engines to work under various GUIs, view and manipulate PGN files, compute Elo ratings, and other purposes. This page is dedicated to computer chess utility programs.