pgnhelper 0.1.0

It sorts games by tags and add eco, opening and variation.

pgnhelper

An application to process pgn file.

Installation

pip install pgnhelper

Features

1. Sort games by eco tag from script.

"""
sample.py

pip install pgnhelper
"""

from pgnhelper import pgnhelper

a = pgnhelper.PgnHelper(
    'sort',
    inpgnfn='mygames.pgn',
    outpgnfn='out.pgn',
    sort_tag='eco',
    sort_direction='hightolow')
a.start()

2. Sort games from command line.

python -m pgnhelper.pgnhelper sort --inpgnfn "c:/chess/mygames.pgn" --outpgnfn "out.pgn" --sort-tag eco --sort-direction hightolow

3. Add ECO, ECOT, Opening, OpeningT, Variation and VariationT to the game. The T in ECOT, OpeningT and VariationT refers to Transposition. ECO code will be based on the first 4 plies of the game while ECOT will be the ECO after 4 plies of the game with a maximum of 24 plies.

python -m pgnhelper.pgnhelper addeco --inpgnfn mygames.pgn --inecopgnfn eco.pgn --outpgnfn eco_mygames.pgn

Example output where the game started as English and has transposed into QGD.

[Event "FEOBOS, Rank 00003"]
[Site "Trier"]
[Date "2017.01.29"]
[Round "20"]
[White "FEOBOS"]
[Black "FEOBOS"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "3000"]
[ECO "A17"]
[ECOT "D41"]
[Opening "English"]
[OpeningT "QGD"]
[PlyCount "20"]
[Source "Frank Quisinsky"]
[VariationT "Semi-Tarrasch with e3"]
[WhiteElo "3000"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. d4 c5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e3 Be7 7. Bc4 cxd4 8. exd4 Nc6 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Qd6 1/2-1/2

Help

python -m pgnhelper.pgnhelper --help

python -m pgnhelper.pgnhelper sort --help