Looking for a tool to annotate games

[Michel]

Hi,

I am looking for a command line(!) tool that will take an engine and pgn file as parameters
and will produce a version of the pgn with the current score (according to the engine) added as a comment to each move.

Of course I can easily hack something together myself but perhaps such a thing already exists?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

[jhaglund]

Chessbase does this wonderfully. Oops, you said command line...

Otherwise, I'd suggest hacking Crafty's annotate.c

[jshriver]

I use crafty to annotate all of my personal games and spit out a beautiful LaTeX or PS file with board graphics too.

run crafty and then "help annotatet"

One time for fun I feed it a Bobby Fischer game and let it burn away cycles for about 24 hours when the file was done crafty didn't change a single move or deviation for white. Thought that was pretty nifty.

Unlike my games which tend to have suggestions after about 4-5 ply lol.

-Josh

P.S. For Dr. Hyatt thanks for this feature it's amazing and have been using it for years.

[Fguy64]

I use crafty to annotate all of my personal games and spit out a beautiful LaTeX or PS file with board graphics too.

run crafty and then "help annotatet"

One time for fun I feed it a Bobby Fischer game and let it burn away cycles for about 24 hours when the file was done crafty didn't change a single move or deviation for white. Thought that was pretty nifty.

Unlike my games which tend to have suggestions after about 4-5 ply lol.

-Josh

P.S. For Dr. Hyatt thanks for this feature it's amazing and have been using it for years.

That is pretty nifty. Do you recall what Fischer game you used?

[jshriver]

Sadly I don't, this was probably 4-5 years ago and on my old G4 500mhz machine at the time.