In CB Light or Fritz/Hiarcs, how can I take the results of a search and
export the columns to a spreadsheet?

I don't mean the game moves, just the info about player, tournament,
black, white, outcome, and number of moves? I'm especially interested
in number of moves, because PGN files are delimited so I can read many
of the variables, but I dont know how to get number of moves into a
column in the spreadsheet because that info is buried in the moves to
the game. So I just want those tables you get when doing a CB search
into Excel format.

Any suggestions appreciated. thx.

wrote:
In CB Light or Fritz/Hiarcs, how can I take the results of a search
and export the columns to a spreadsheet?

You can't, to the best of my knowledge. Easiest would be to use a
scripting language like Perl to extract the data from the PGN headers
and write it to a CSV (comma-separated variable) file.


I don't mean the game moves, just the info about player, tournament,
black, white, outcome, and number of moves? I'm especially
interested in number of moves, because PGN files are delimited so I
can read many of the variables, but I dont know how to get number of
moves into a column in the spreadsheet because that info is buried
in the moves to the game.

As I recall, Fritz etc. set the PlyCount PGN tag. Divide that by two
to get the number of moves in the traditional sense.


Dave.

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