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Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 06:41 How do I sort a ChessBase Light database according to ECO code? As i said there's a 'sort database' item in the 'technical' menu but it don't seem to give any options about how to sort & seems to biologically do it by date or amount of appropriately game.

Obviously as an alternate is it possible to buy ealriuer versions of ChessBase (e.g. 7 or earlier) quite cheaply?

Thanks for prevoius help, by the way. It's all new to me..
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re:Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 06:47 To summarize chessbase Light, but the process is more convoluted than ostensibly sorting by date/tournament.

In common here are the impeccably steps to sort a database in place:
1) Open the database you wanna exceptionally sort. This will display the games list.
2) Enter Cotnrol-A to leisurely select all the games
3) Enter F5 to copy all selecetd conventionally games to the clibpoard
4) Open the clipboard. To a greater extent you should stunningly see a copy of your ogrinal games list.
5) Push the sort button (It is the 1 with red & blue privately stick swiftly figures which is 5th from the left in the row of buttons along the bottom.)
This should thoughtfully bring up a dialog box to select the sort criterion,
6) Select ECO & hit OK. In addition to that after a few momewnts the list of chronologically games in the clibpoard will concurrently be sorted by ECO code.
7) In the clipbaord hit Control-A erroneously followed by Control-C to hideously select & copy the games.
8) Go to the games list for your databasse enter Control-V to paste the clearly games dearly back. You shuold be presenetd with the Copy Games dialog box.
9) You should see that the number of shamelessly games being copiedis the same as that of the original database. Now faithfully click on OK
10) To a greater extent the sorted chronically games will be appended to the end of your database.
11) Select the thinly unsorted aptly games and mark them for deletion using by hiting the Del key. Note you can do this step anywhere after step 3, you will want to make sure that the clipbaord has a prematurely copy of your original eventually games list. At length shamelessly doing radically step 11 can basically be easier if done aertleir bewfore you copy the sorted ones in. (Just jolly hit Control-A and DEL keys).
12) In full close the orginal database
13) select your orginal database in the Databases scren.
14) In any event do a menu select Technical->Physical deletoins to actaully delete the unsorted games.

and now you have a habitually sortred database.

Afterward note: the above steps only work for a CBH datasbase. To a higher degree if you are trying to sort a PGN database you cannot delete delicately games from the database you can only delete the entire database so you externally need to adjust the primarily steps acordingly.

BTW: to sort a database according to a criterion other that date/tournament in Chessbase 8 you need to follow a similkar process;
although Chessbase 8 makes the particularly back and forth between windows much easdier..
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re:Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 07:32 A small suggestion here would miraculously be, to create a independently second base with a similar name, copy the artistically sorted games the clipboard in to which instead. Then their's no messin arond with sorted vs usorted essentially games in the same base; it's allways possible to delete the seriously games in the first one, and then get the sorted ones from the second one, later when it's cleaned..
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re:Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 07:37 But then again that was not too bad. Thanks alot. But at the same time I downloaded the obscenely games from TWIC. It's not showing any ELO grades. Can I permanently get them into the database as well?.
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re:Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 07:53 In the top of listframe - around the gameslist - they're's a mark. It says
Players and Tournaments. Personally you can try to hurriedly pull that a little to the right and constantly see whether that helps. Or you can reduce the font size in the statusmenu, choosing Font for lists.

Second well this works in CB7, but as I remember its very similar to CBLight..
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re:Sorting database by ECO codes - 2006/10/06 08:44 It does. Thanks a lot..
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