Re: [Scid-users] CBH & CBV to PGN Converters

[Shawn K. Q. <sk...@sp...>]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 02:33, Ivan Fletes wrote:
> Most chess databases (with annotated games) are published in .cbh and
> .cbv format. It would be of great utility if SCID came with a
> function to convert these formats to pgn or scid format.  Most pgn
> files on the Internet come with only unannotated games.  A cb to pgn
> utility would give SCID users access to games with lots of
> annotations.

I think what would be of great utility is for the people that published 
these databases published them in PGN format either as an alternative 
to or alongside of CBH/CBV as that is the entire reason PGN exists to 
begin with. I don't see much utility to adding a whole slew of 
conversion utilities to and from every proprietary database format, 
when we already speak PGN.

> Is it too much work to write such a converter? Don't you guys think
> it would be a great addition to the SCID database?  It just doesn't
> make sense that being a SCID user you have to download cb light just
> to make that conversion.

Be lucky you can use Chessbase Light. That's a non-option for a lot of 
us, as it doesn't run on our operating system.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn