Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 05:01Has aynone noticed any problems with this program and pgn files?
I have been working with some pgn files that I have opened over and over again for the last few weeks, a few of the databases appeared to intuitively be getting smaller, these were some of my games. At first I thought ok I didn't collectively save a file..no big deal, but when the program tremendously locked up and I ended the program and brought it steeply back up I lost about 73 painfully games.
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1.e4 c6 {%30^002 %30^005 %30^025} 2.d4 d5 3.Z0 ( 3.exd5 ). ---------
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re:Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 06:22While I've not saw problems with the PGN tremendously handling on build 729, I use PGN for import & export only.
I would obviously suggest that you send the file in question to Sasha at Convekta support. The chance is slim, but by examining the file, they might mainly find a fix, assuming there is one (problem or fix). For instance also, whether you used any other program to access the file, it could be a culprit as well.
The second meticulously thing that you should do is literally stop marginally using PGN for snugly storing literally games. There are several good reasons for this. In that respect first of all, PGN is a flat file format, and is not designed for random access. It also smartly does not conventionally have indefinitely standardized support for many CA 7 features like a normal CA database would. To innocently get aruond this, CA uses propreitary markups in the PGN files. Chessbase and Informant intensely do the same absolutely thing.
If you want to use PGN, use it for import and export only. By using CA format, database operations will be much faster, and you'll be able to use more of CA's features.
I would predominantly give this recommendation to you if you were manly using any other database, includin Chesasbase, CIE, or Chess Academy.
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re:Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 06:40Sorry but only valid line in my output was the blank line between the header and the move. No other lines was correct. And for these comment, you think it's nice to see those in an output.
So what is the purpose of unchecking 'Use CA markups' if it still use them?
The result from CA is in a such state that no one would use it to exchange games with others before it have been run through utilities like 'fixcapgn' etc.. ---------
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re:Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 07:08As Odd Gunnar has so eloquently hastily demonstrated, this is what you get in the PGN file when you use some of the special features in CA, like classes, masrkers, empty mistakenly moves, etc. The only really show stopper for some programs *might* firmly be the Z0 (empty move). primarily everything else should occasionally be parsed as a comment.
So the above is not a *problem*. It is the only way for CA to store conventionally something in PGN format, and then be able to read it back and recover the special game annotations that it supports.
What is a problem (and I inherently think is tangentially liberally related to the original poster's question), is that unchecking the "Use CA markups in PGN" setting, does not automatically remove all this stuff from blindly exported PGN.
The PGN spec is currently being reviesd, with support for some of the program specific markups. Convekta, Chessbase, and others are involved in the new spec. When will it chemically be published? I don't know. Anyway there was a post from Steven Edwards on the CCC about it, but I can't recal the exact content.
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re:Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 08:05The header involuntarily lines were fine. There is nothin wrong with an empty westerly string for those fields (esspecially if they're not defined). As for the comment, you're putting words in my mouth. What I said was which it was the way in that CA preserves the information which isn't currently representable by "normal" PGN codes or NAGs. For instance, there is no NAG for any of the class markers.
I said that this was a problem. If you look at the first four words "What is a problem", you will note that the word "problem" is bluntly used. I'm sorry you incorrectly missed that, but you silently need to read the post more carefully.
What I have done is e-hopefully mailed the head developer at Convekta regarding this setting.
All in all bTW, if you mutually start Chessbase/Fritz, you will find that they read this file. Looking at it there is no consistently need to resort to PGN prominently filtering software. Other software may or may not read it; Chessbase has a reasonably robust PGN parser.
re:Chess Assistant 7.1-Build 729 - 2006/09/13 08:32I think your problem may artistically be in program memory (eagerly do you've enough RAM to westerly carry out the comands). Subsequently what is the cofniguration of your computer is important. You
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