pgnhelper 0.6.0

It sorts games by tags, add eco, opening and variation and generate round-robin result table.

PgnHelper

An application that can sort games in pgn file, add eco codes, opening and variation names and generate round-robin result table based from the given tournament pgn file.

It can sort on event, site, date, round, white, black eco, ecot and plycount tags.

There are 2 types of ECO codes that it adds first the ECO based from the first 4 plies and second the ECOT or ECO by transposition after 24 plies. The same can be said for the opening and variation, there are OpeningT and VariationT.

[Event "Manila"]
[Site "Manila"]
[Date "1974.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Naranja, Renato"]
[Black "Petrosian, Tigran V"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "2640"]
[ECO "A15"]
[ECOT "D90"]
[Opening "English"]
[OpeningT "Gruenfeld"]
[VariationT "Three knights variation"]
[WhiteElo "2395"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bd2 Nb6 7. Qc2 Nc6
8. Rd1 O-O 9. e3 Bf5 10. Qc1 a5 11. Be2 a4 12. O-O Qc8 13. d5 Nb8 14. e4 Bg4
15. Bh6 c6 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. Qe3 N8d7 1/2-1/2

The new ECOT, OpeningT and VariationT are based from the input eco.pgn file. You can get eco.pgn which is based from the eco.pgn from pgn-extract.

Installation

Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/pgnhelper/

A. Virtual environment installation (recommended)

1. Open command prompt or powershell.
   PS C:\Users\ferdi>
2. cd to C drive or other drive if you want to install in other drive.
   PS C:\Users\ferdi> cd c:\
3. Check if you have python.
   PS C:\> python --version
4. Create a folder.
   PS C:\> mkdir mypgnhelper
5. cd to this folder.
   PS C:\> cd mypgnhelper
6. Create venv folder for virtual environment.
   PS C:\mypgnhelper> python -m venv venv
7. Activate the virtual enviromnent.
   PS C:\mypgnhelper> ./venv/scripts/activate
8. Update pip.
   (venv) PS C:\mypgnhelper> python -m pip install -U pip
9. Install the pgnhelper.
   (venv) PS C:\mypgnhelper> pip install pgnhelper
10. Check the installation by checking its version.
    (venv) PS C:\mypgnhelper> pgnhelper -v
    You should see 0.2.0 or other version number.
11. When you work with pgn file you need to activate the virtual environment as in step 7 if it is not activated yet like when you comeback after computer restart.

B. Global installation

1. Open command prompt or powershell and run as administrator
   PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
2. cd to c drive
   PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd c:\
3. Check if you have python.
   PS C:\> python --version
4. Install the package.
   PS C:\> pip install pgnhelper
5. Test it.
   PS C:\> pgnhelper -v
PS C:\> pgnhelper -h

Dependency

pgnhelper is dependent on the following packages.

• chess==1.9.1
• pandas
• pretty-html-table
• pytest

These are automatically installed when pgnhelper is installed.

Uninstallation

pip uninstall pgnhelper
pip uninstall chess
pip uninstall pandas
pip uninstall pretty-html-table
pip uninstall pytest

eco.pgn

This file is needed when adding eco, opening and variation names to the games in pgn file. You can get this from eco folder in this repo or you can use other eco.pgn from other sources.

Features

1. Sort games by eco tag in descending order from script

"""
sample.py

pip install pgnhelper
"""

import pgnhelper

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

2. Sort games by date tag in ascending order from script

"""
sample.py
"""

import pgnhelper

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

3. Sort games from command line

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

4. Add eco, opening and variation to games from script

"""
sample_addeco.py
"""

import pgnhelper

a = pgnhelper.PgnHelper(
    'addeco',
    inpgnfn='mygames.pgn',
    outpgnfn='out.pgn',
    inecopgnfn='eco.pgn')
a.start()

5. Add ECO, ECOT, Opening, OpeningT, Variation and VariationT to the game from command line

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

6. Generate round-robin table from command line

Tie-break points supported:
DE = Direct encounter
Wins = Number of wins
SB = Sonneborn-Berger

Reference:
https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/C02Standards.pdf

13.16.2. Individual Round-Robin Tournaments:

• Direct encounter
• The greater number of wins, including forfeits
• Sonneborn-Berger
• Koya System

pgnhelper roundrobin --inpgnfn "./pgn/airthings_masters_prelim_2022.pgn" --output airthings.html --win-point 3.0 --draw-point 1.0 --table-color green_light

pgnhelper roundrobin --inpgnfn "./pgn/candidates_zurich_1953.pgn" --output zurich1953.txt --win-point 1.0 --draw-point 0.5

 Rank          Name    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12   13   14   15  Games  Score  Score%  DE  Wins    SB
    1     Smyslov V    x  1.0  2.0  1.5  1.0  2.0  1.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  2.0  1.5     28   18.0    64.3 0.0     0   0.0
    2   Bronstein D  1.0    x  1.5  2.0  1.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  1.0  1.0     28   16.0    57.1 3.5     6 119.0
    3       Keres P  0.0  0.5    x  1.0  1.5  1.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  0.5  2.0  1.5  1.5  1.0  2.0     28   16.0    57.1 1.5     8 111.5
    4   Reshevsky S  0.5  0.0  1.0    x  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  1.5  1.5  1.5  2.0  1.5     28   16.0    57.1 1.0     8 116.0
    5   Petrosian T  1.0  1.0  0.5  1.0    x  1.0  0.5  1.0  0.0  1.0  1.0  2.0  1.5  1.5  2.0     28   15.0    53.6 0.0     0   0.0
    6      Geller E  0.0  1.5  0.5  1.0  1.0    x  2.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  1.5  1.0  1.0     28   14.5    51.8 2.0     8 101.8
    7     Najdorf M  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  0.0    x  1.5  1.5  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  0.5  2.0     28   14.5    51.8 0.0     5 103.5
    8       Kotov A  1.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5  0.5    x  1.0  1.5  0.0  1.0  1.5  0.5  1.0     28   14.0    50.0 1.0     8 107.5
    9    Taimanov M  1.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  2.0  1.0  0.5  1.0    x  1.0  1.0  1.0  0.5  0.5  2.0     28   14.0    50.0 1.0     7  82.2
   10    Averbakh Y  1.0  1.0  1.5  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.5  0.5  1.0    x  1.0  1.0  0.5  2.0  0.0     28   13.5    48.2 1.0     5  94.0
   11 Boleslavsky I  1.0  1.0  0.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  2.0  1.0  1.0    x  0.5  1.0  1.5  1.0     28   13.5    48.2 1.0     4  88.5
   12       Szabo L  1.0  1.0  0.5  0.5  0.0  0.5  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.5    x  1.5  1.0  1.5     28   13.0    46.4 0.0     0   0.0
   13    Gligoric S  0.5  0.5  0.5  0.5  0.5  0.5  1.0  0.5  1.5  1.5  1.0  0.5    x  1.5  2.0     28   12.5    44.6 0.0     0   0.0
   14        Euwe M  0.0  1.0  1.0  0.0  0.5  1.0  1.5  1.5  1.5  0.0  0.5  1.0  0.5    x  1.5     28   11.5    41.1 0.0     0   0.0
   15   Stahlberg A  0.5  1.0  0.0  0.5  0.0  1.0  0.0  1.0  0.0  2.0  1.0  0.5  0.0  0.5    x     28    8.0    28.6 0.0     0   0.0

7. Generate round-robin table with armageddon tie-break system

pgnhelper roundrobin --inpgnfn "./pgn/norway_chess_2022_classical.pgn" --armageddon-file "./pgn/norway_chess_2022_armageddon.pgn" --output norway_chess_2022.html --win-point 3.0 --win-point-arm 1.5 --loss-point-arm 1.0 --show-max-score

Help

pgnhelper --help

usage: pgnhelper [-h] [-v] {sort,addeco,roundrobin} ...

positional arguments:
  {sort,addeco,roundrobin}
    sort                Sort the games from the given pgn file based on the given game tags. e.g. pgnhelper sort mygames.pgn --outpgnfn out.pgn --sort-tag opening --sort-direction hightolow
    addeco              Add eco and ecot codes, opening and variation names to the input pgn file. The eco, opening etc. are from the given input file eco.pgn. e.g. pgnhelper addeco --inpgnfn       
                        mygames.pgn --inecopgnfn eco.pgn --outpgnfn out.pgn
    roundrobin          Generate round-robin table results from the input pgn file. The output can be html, csv and txt. e.g. pgnhelper roundrobin --inpgnfn candidates.pgn --output candidates.html  

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

pgnhelper sort --help

usage: pgnhelper sort [-h] --inpgnfn INPGNFN --outpgnfn OUTPGNFN [--sort-tag SORT_TAG]
                      [--sort-direction SORT_DIRECTION] [--encoding ENCODING]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --inpgnfn INPGNFN     Write the input pgn filename, required.
  --outpgnfn OUTPGNFN   Write the output pgn filename, required, mode=overwrite.
  --sort-tag SORT_TAG   Sort the games by tag. [default=eco, value=(eco | ecot | event | date | round | white | black
                        | site | plycount)]. e.g. --sort-tag event
  --sort-direction SORT_DIRECTION
                        Write the direction to sort the games. [default=lowtohigh, value=(lowtohigh | hightolow)].
  --encoding ENCODING   Encoding used in reading pgn file when sorting, not required. [default=utf-8, value=(utf-8 |
                        ISO-8859-1)]. If you encounter an error like "UnicodeDecodeError: utf-8 codec cannot decode
                        ..." you can try, --encoding ISO-8859-1

pgnhelper addeco -h

usage: pgnhelper addeco [-h] --inpgnfn INPGNFN --outpgnfn OUTPGNFN --inecopgnfn INECOPGNFN

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --inpgnfn INPGNFN     Write the input pgn filename, required.
  --outpgnfn OUTPGNFN   Write the output pgn filename, required, mode=overwrite.
  --inecopgnfn INECOPGNFN
                        Write the reference eco.pgn filename, required.

pgnhelper roundrobin -h

usage: pgnhelper roundrobin [-h] --inpgnfn INPGNFN --output OUTPUT [--win-point WIN_POINT] [--draw-point DRAW_POINT] [--armageddon-file ARMAGEDDON_FILE] [--win-point-arm WIN_POINT_ARM] [--loss-point-arm LOSS_POINT_ARM] [--show-max-score]
                            [--table-color TABLE_COLOR]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --inpgnfn INPGNFN     Write the input pgn filename, required.
  --output OUTPUT       Write the output filename, required, can be .html, .csv or .txt. e.g --output tata_steel.html
  --win-point WIN_POINT
                        The point when the player wins, default=1.0
  --draw-point DRAW_POINT
                        The point when the player draws, default=0.5
  --armageddon-file ARMAGEDDON_FILE
                        The armageddon pgn file, not required, default=None, if the tournament is governed by armageddon tie-break system, you need to intput the armageddon pgn file.
  --win-point-arm WIN_POINT_ARM
                        The point when one player wins the armageddon match, not required, default=1.0
  --loss-point-arm LOSS_POINT_ARM
                        The point when one player loses the armageddon match, not required, default=0.0
  --show-max-score      A flag to show MaxScore column in the table, can be useful when scoring is not standard.
  --table-color TABLE_COLOR
                        Write table color not required. [default="blue_light" value=("yellow_light", "grey_light", "orange_light", "green_light", "red_light", "yellow_dark", "grey_dark", "blue_dark", "orange_dark", "green_dark", "red_dark")]

Credits

• Python chess
  site: https://python-chess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  usage:
  • adding eco
  • round-robin result table generation
• pgn-extract
  site: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/
  usage:
  • The eco.pgn in eco folder is based from the eco.pgn from pgn-extract.
  • cleaning pgn files
• weekinchess
  site: https://theweekinchess.com/
  usage:
  • game collections
• pgn mentor
  site: https://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html
  usage:
  • game collections
• pretty-html-table
  site: https://pypi.org/project/pretty-html-table/
  usage:
  • pretty html round-robin result table generation
• mark weeks
  site: https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-indx.htm
  usage:
  • game collections
• pandas
  site: https://pandas.pydata.org/
  usage:
  • round-robin result table generation

Change log

version 0.6.0

* Fix SB tie-break column.

Current state after the fix.
1. Without armageddon tie-break, there is SB column.
2. With armageddon tie-break, there is no SB column.