Seeking PGN/EPG/games database manipulation tools

[mjlef]

Can someone suggest some good data analysis porgram that can look at big databases of games. Let me give a couple of examples of things I would like:

Count the number of times certain moves (save Ne5-f7)in winning versus losing games.
Count the number of games where a Bishop moved to b4, and show the inning percentages for that side.

I have SCID, which does have a simple material and patern matching (position specific) function, but it does not seem to match moves, just positions.

Mark

[Odd Gunnar Malin]

You could look at the CQL ( http://www.rbnn.com/cql/ ).
There is a tool on the site to do advanced search in pgn databases. Also Chess Assistant have CQL built in.

Odd Gunnar

[mjlef]

Thanks. That might just do what I need!