NAME

       pgn-extract - a Portable Game Notation (PGN) extractor

SYNOPSIS

       pgn-extract [flags] file.pgn [file.pgn ...]

DESCRIPTION

       pgn-extract  is  a free, open-source program pgn-extract, which is designed to support the
       processing, searching and extraction of chess games from  files  written  in  PGN  format.
       There  are  several  ways  to  specify  the  criteria  on  which  to extract: textual move
       sequences, the position reached after a sequence of moves, information in the tag  fields,
       and material balance in the ending. Full ANSI C source and a 32-bit Windows binary for the
       program are available under the terms of the  GNU  General  Public  License.  The  program
       includes  a  semantic analyser which will report errors in game scores and it is also able
       to detect duplicate games found in one or more of its input files.

       The range of input move formats accepted is fairly wide and includes recognition of lower-
       case  piece  letters  for  English  and upper-case piece letters for Dutch and German. The
       default output is in English Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN),  although  there  is  some
       support for output in different notations.

       Extracted  games  may  be  written  out  either including or excluding comments, NAGs, and
       variations. Games may be given ECO classifications  derived  from  the  accompanying  file
       eco.pgn, or a customised version provided by the user.

       Plus, lots of other useful features that have gradually found their way into what was once
       a relatively simple program!

OPTIONS

       Run pgn-extract -h to get all the options.

       A complete description of each option can be found in /usr/share/doc/pgn-extract/help.html

AUTHOR

       pgn-extract was written by David J. Barnes <d.j.barnes@kent.ac.uk>.

       This manual page was written by Peter van Rossum <petervr@debian.org> and  Vincent  Legout
       <vlegout@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

                                           May 19, 2013                            PGN-EXTRACT(1)