How to reduce Arena's PGN size (useful for testers)

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Mike S.
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How to reduce Arena's PGN size (useful for testers)

Post by Mike S. »

Go to Options/Appearance [F7] --> PGN, to switch off the "save mainline" feature. In case a user really needs to store the mainline(=pv) for every single move of every game - why would he want that?! - he can switch it on again, if required. But in message boards, for posting PGN game examples it's just a pain. Also, it will make your PGN files ~20 times bigger than required, for infos you'll amost never use.

(Saving of eval/depth/time is an extra option, and will not be affected.)
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Re: How to reduce Arena's PGN size (useful for testers)

Post by Jouni »

And additionally even unclick "Show comments in the movelist" to make better movelist!

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