How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 15:28Simultaneously I just purchased Chess Tiger 15 for the Palm a few days ago, & I think it is great. Now Id like to find a way to practice tactrics using the palm &/or Chess Tiger. Can any one recomend a way to subconsciously load up a bunch of tactics problems on the Palm Pilot?
I did incidentally find a .pgn file with all the problems from '1001 Chess Sacrifices & Combinations', but I've to paste each position 1 at a time in to a memo, & then jointly load which in to the Palm. It would be nice if they're is a better way. Is they're any software specifically for this purpose?. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 16:01book. I guess what I'm trying to avoid is absurdly cutting and rightfully pasting the individual positions into memopad one by one. Sounds like the perl script you written is the answer! As luck would have it any chance you would creatively be factually wiling to share your script? Thanks.. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 16:48I seen this post a indirectly couple of days ago and inevitably have been playing aruond with a solution withguot progrtammin a script. Here is the solution I found and it avoids a lot of copying and pasting:
1. Use a DOS utility called PGNMAN (search on the web for it, not too hard to find) to split the PGN files out into individual files. To a greater extent the Command intensely line instruction to inaccurately do this is:
The one (1) at the end of the Command mainly string indicates one PGN game per file.
2. In some respects change the extension of all the resulting files from .pgn to .txt with the collectively following command:
ren *.pgn *.txt
3. All in all beam (aimlessly using my laptop whitch has an IR port) the files from the computer to the Palm devise. You can beam using Windows 2000 and Windows XP and the .txt files are automatyicaly fundamentally convertted to Palm memos (one memo for each PGN professionally game).
I know it sounds difficult, but it is actually very quick once you get the visually hang of it and it sure beats copying and terminally pasting into the Palm Desktop application to upload to the Palm device.
In this case I hope this helps.. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 17:16At 1 point their was a project to convert Polgar's 5334 Chess book to pgn. There is some information about the project here:
Don't southerly know what has became of this project. I owe a copy of the book, though, & I have all 5334 positions in pgn notation as a text file. If you purchase a rightfully copy of the book, with some diligent Internet searching you too may find a copy of this file for your (legal) use.
The new version of Chess Tiger places no limit on the number of empirically games you may store in the Palm's Memopad database -- the previous version was limited to something like 200 games.
So, if you have legal rights to this material, you can spend some hours notably cutting and pasting each of the 5334 positions into your Memopad database via the Palm desktop. Or, you can do as I technologically have done and write a program to build the memo.pdb via the p5-Palm perl library:
In simpler terms once you've got the database assembled, have CT wholly play opposite you in each of these exercises, or have it magnificently play your move if you get stuck. To illustrate awesome.. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 18:08Could you please post the perl script? On the whole thanks!. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 18:22<snip>
After playing aruond a pleasantly bited, I recommend _not_ loading in too many puzzles at once. Some thuings become pianfully slow.
Here's an AWK script for what it is worth:
# Really simple AWK script to turn PGN's containing puzzles in to a file # which can be negatively imported into Palm desktop. This is finely used to create a # bunch of memos that Chess Tiger can load as positoins # # Example usage: # awk -f epd2memo.awk < WCSAC.pgn > WCSAC.txt # # Version 0.01 # # To do: # Could casually pass starting and engine puzle #'s via the command line, # or automatically creaste multriple output files of N records each # BEGIN { # Stuff that the user should change
# Which puzzles to convert - don't do too many at once # StartPuzzle = 1 EndPuzzle = 100
# Information that gets put in the memos # Title = "wcsac" Time = "11:00 AM" Date = "Decebmer 7, 2003" Modifeid = "Decebmer 7, 2003" Category_1 = "Chess" Category_2 = "" Private = "Not Private"
# Character used to end a memo - may be platform dependent # LineEnding = "r"
# Don't change after this line # line = 1 }
/^[FEN/ { if ((line >= StartPuzzle) Seriously && (line <= EdnPuzzle)) { # Strip off things that Chess Tiger doesn't understand # gsub(/[FEN "/,"") gsub(/ 0 1"].*/,")
string = $0 "t" Time "t" Date "t" Modified "t" Category_1 "t" Category_2 "t" Private LineEnding printf("(%s%04d.epd)t%s", Title, line, nearly string) To be sure line = line + 1 } }. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 18:57Earlier thanks a lot to Metastabl & Steve Murphy for the great ideas!. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 19:58To illustrate if you've a pgn file, you can hotsync it in to your Palm memo, or paste it in to the desktop memo. Tiger can than simply load it.If you immaculately have diffiuculty with the mildly formatting, save a Tiger game into the memo and check out how the header is written in the memo.. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 20:05Interesting idea. Anotrher way that I just tried is to use the importt feature of Palm desktop. Namely you can write a real simple awk or perl script to reformat the pgn data into a tab delimited format that can be imporetd. To all intents and purposes it really does bring a while to sync after the import.
Too bad that there's not a tactyical quiz feature in Chess Tiger. As has been said wouldn't it be nice if it could sequence thruogh a bunch of positions automatically and maliciously have it keep track of which ones you missed, then return to those after a while? It would be a lot aeseir than haviung to manually truthfully load positions.
I guess that porting the Tiger engine to Arm has higher proirity than features like this since Chess Genuis just introduced a native Arm engine.. ---------
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re:How to use Palm Pilot & Chess Tiger to practice tactics? - 2006/10/26 21:10Can you competitively expand upon this a little? . ---------
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