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Conversion Utilities

Each file found here is in Zip format (.zip). In order to extract the Conversion Utilitity file, it is necessary to unzip the file with a program like WINZIP or PKZIP. If you do not have such a program, you can download one for free at http://www.interpages.co.uk/pkzipage/.

Index of ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/CONV

You can download from here ( last updated Sun Jan 3 20:49:55 CST 1999 ) or go straight to ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/CONV


Chess Converter Programs (Subdirectory /CONV)

ca2pgn3.zip    Chess Assistant to PGN, version 0.2 upgrade. Despite the
               file name (named for technical reasons), this is version
0.2, which is the latest oneas of 9/21/97.
cb2ca.zip      ChessBase to Chess Assistant
cb2pgn.zip     ChessBase to PGN
cba16.zip      CBASCII v. 1.6 (16-bit version). ChessBase to PGN & back
               Unpack with pkunzip -d switch.
cba3216.zip    CBASCII v. 1.6 32-bit version for Win 95/NT
               Unpack with pkunzip -d switch.
cbasc-am.lha   CBASCII ported to Amiga
convert.zip    Overview of Database/PGN Formats & Conversions
dots_2.zip     Linux perl script to convert PGN files written by Chess Asst.
               into PGN files ChessBase can understand.  See README.TXT,
               included in archive.
edsold12.zip   Converts old Internet move format to PGN (MS-DOS)
               Upgrade -- posted 7/28/98
eds-old.zip    Version 1.72, posted 12/30/98.  Various users may find one or
               the other their best choice, though this one is the newer.
README-extract Docs for EXTRACT
extract.tgz    Unix version of Extract (1/98)
extract.zip    David Barnes' PGN Extract Utility (6/24/97)
fbk2rbm.zip    Fritz Power-Books to Rebel 7
ficspgn2.hqx   FICS to PGN Converter for Macintosh
ficspgn2.txt   Description of figspgn2.hqx
nic2ca.zip     NicBase 2 or 3 to Chess Assistant
nic2pgn.zip    NicBase to PGN
nict2pgn.zip   NicBase-generated Text to PGN
pgn2ca.zip     PGN to Chess Assistant
pgn2cb.zip     PGN to ChessBase
pgn2nic.zip    PGN to NicBase 3
rebopen.zip    Free opening books for Rebel transposed to Chessbase, for
               making Fritz, Genuis & some other books.  Unpack with
               pkunzip -d switch.
yai2pgn.zip    ICS to PGN Converter