[Scidvspc-users] pgn2scid - a GUI wrapper for pgnscid and scmerge

[Andreas K. <and...@gm...>]

Hi all,
I developed (read: hacked together) a GUI wrapper for pgnscid and scmerge,
with some extra functionality added. It's developed in Python and while
it's clearly not the most beautiful Python code under the sun it runs well
and it should be quite stable. Here's an excerpt from the manual:

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What is pgn2scid?

pgn2scid basically is a convenient GUI wrapper (a graphical user interface
for command line tools) for 'pgnscid' and 'scmerge', two programs to
convert PGN files to native 'Scid' database files and to merge a number of
'Scid' files with an existing 'Scid' database. Both tools should be part of
a standard 'Scid vs. PC' installation.

But there's more! In detail pgn2scid can:

* run on multiple platforms

* keep your database up to date automatically by downloading the PGN game
collections kindly provided by 'The Week in Chess' (
http://theweekinchess.com/).

* keep track of your downloads so that only the latest files which haven’t
already been downloaded are selectable.

* process PGN files from other sources, let’s say from your last OTB
tournament or games played on a chess server. All you have to do is to put
those files in pgn2scid’s working directory.

* automatically uncompress zipped PGN files.

* automatically merge a number of PGN files into one single file.

* convert any number of PGN files to the native 'Scid' database format
without the hassle of using command line tools.

* create a zipped backup of an existing 'Scid' database before performing
any database merge operations.

* add any number of 'Scid' files to an existing database also without to
use a command line tool.

* every step described above is optional.

* store all settings in an initialisation file so pgn2scid is already
preconfigured next time it is started.

pgn2scid requires Python 3.4 or newer. For Windows users there's a
pre-build executable available so that there's no need to download and
install Python first. In this case just download and unzip the file
'pgn2scid_x_y_win_executable.zip', where x stands for the major and y for
the minor version number. It contains everything you need to run pgn2scid
as well as the pdf manual.

Fore more information on how to install and use pgn2scid please read the
mentioned pdf manual.
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So if you would like to try it you can go to the GitHub project website on

https://github.com/CasualPyDev/pgn2scid

Please don't use this mailing list for anything related to this program.
For questions, comments, bug reports etc. you can send an email to
and...@gm....

Thanks,
Andreas Kreisig