trouble building book with polyglot

[Hart]

When I am building a book with polyglot I get a lot of errors like "malformed tag" and was looking for a tool that would correct my pgns or even remove games with incorrect tags. Somebody suggested pgnextract and I gave it a try. I did not have any success with it and it's not even clear to me if I am using the correct switches. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Denis P. Mendoza]

Go to Jim Ablett's website and get this file: Jim's PGN
Cleanup Toolkit v1.2

Here's master Jim's page: http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

Try also Norm Pollock's tool package. I think the link is also at Jim's page!

Sorry if I can't give you specific tools but I hope this helps. I also use othe tools like normal32, pgntrim, etc. to try and fix some pgn tags. Make sure you know how the files work on some OS. I usuallly use different OS as some won't work on Win64. Please use Fonzy's newcompile as it is much faster and stable than the old GCC compile. Goodluck!

[Rubinus]

Malformed tag? Probably etc. "tournament, 90'+30"" (GUI Fritz). Or "Memorial "xxx" ".
Other concept is probe import to SpikeBookBuilder -> wiev error and edit notepad.
Error PGN wiev have ChessPad.

[Philippe]

You can find tools in order to have proper PGN files.
ftp.pitt.edu//group/student-activities/chess.
CBA3216C.ZIP & CBPOWER.ZIP
All usefull infos are inside.

[Denis P. Mendoza]

You can find tools in order to have proper PGN files.
ftp.pitt.edu//group/student-activities/chess.
CBA3216C.ZIP & CBPOWER.ZIP
All usefull infos are inside.

YES,and the UTILITIES at : ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/ will also help.

Jim already updated his pgn tool :

Jim's PGN
Cleanup Toolkit v1.3

A batch script which automatically cleans, normalizes &
removes duplicates in pgn files in one step using a
combination of freeware pgn utilities (included)

What's new:
Updated tools to latest versions.
A few more features added.

get it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?i2gmltdymzg