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Is it possible to find games with a certain nag in Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro, for Windows? For example if I want to search for all game with a "?". Or all games with a "!?", or all games with a "!", or all games with a "!!". I tried to do a header search by ty...

The same problem with these games: [Event "Chess Position Trainer"] [Site "Chess Position Trainer"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Others"] [Black "Jonathan"] [Result "*"] [EventDate "????.??.??"] [ECO "B21...

I have the same problem with these games. The eco codes are set with SCID 5.0.2 [Event "Chess Position Trainer"] [Site "Chess Position Trainer"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Others"] [Black "Jonathan"] [Result "*"] [Eve...

The eco codes are set with eco codes used by Arena. You can donwload the eco codes file I used here: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=6c3415e815&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1723659959797579773&th=17ebab99e14c7ffd&view=att&disp=safe Here are the 3 game where you can see ...

If I click on the name of the white opening Philidor Defence. None of the 3 games are listed. The eco codes are set with SCID. I have made a video capture about it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JOM6tHtPArXG4i9pNaxBYJqVJr5298yM/view?usp=sharing If I set the eco codes with Hiarcs I don't get this ...

mrudolf wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 6:56 am We should indeed skip EventDate if empty. It is not a required tag.

Can I change some settings in version 1.2.1 to change this behavior?
Maybe by editing some files in C:\Program Files (x86)\HIARCS Chess\HIARCS Chess Explorer Pro?
When can we expect an update to fix this behavior?

According Bing Chat (Chat-GPT4), there is no perfect way to set the correct eco code in a chess game, because of the many possible transpositions in a game. There are 3 ways to set the eco code. 1. Based on the name of the opening after the first tranposition. 2. Base on the name of the opening afte...

I do the export for replacing the eco codes. I wan to set the eco codes for the database with Hiarcs Chess Explorer pro.
I use a Windows 11 PC.

I use HIARCS Chess Explorer Pro 1.2.1 If I try to export an open database to replece the original, I first get this dialog: W_002_King's Indian Defence.pgn already exists. Do you want to replace it? Than if I click yes, I get this dialog: ® Error This is an open database. Please choose another filen...

[EventDate] is not one of the 7 tags that should be present even if the are unknown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_ ... Tag_Roster

So I want to make a request for Hiarcs Explorer for an option to not add the unrequested "EventDate" tag.

Thanks, so I understand you better, if the Player Explorer offered splitting up an opening into further sub-variations showing the games played stats in those subvariation and like now allowing you to clcik to set a filter based on any of those subvariations that would provide the functionality you...

I already use the Player Expplorer to display the openings. I set fictive names in my repertoire pgn to be able to use this function. It douse a good job. But I need some way to further divede the openings. I can see we could extend the opening categorisation or allow sub naming but in chess transpo...

Chessbase has an interesting option if you load a database and go to report and choose collect openings. This is what the manual of Chessbase says about this option: The program generates a new database that contains all the games that start with the same moves (openings variant) gathered together. ...

I have contacted the programmer of Scid. He says it is an error of Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro This is what he writes: In the latest version a significant amount of work has been done to improve the handling of PGN files, including the validation and error reporting. As part of this enhancement, stric...

Why is Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro adding an extra tag '[EventDate "????.??.??"]' to exported pgn games? I get errors in SCID 5.0.2 if I open these pgn's. [Event "Chess Position Trainer"] [Site "Chess Position Trainer"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] ...