Pair Listing utility for PGN files (new)

[Norm Pollock]

My new utility "pairList" gives a sorted listing of all pairings of players in a PGN file. It is available (for free) as part of my 40H package at

http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Here is a description of "pairList"

"pairList" produces a text file which lists all the player pairings
in the ".pgn" file along with their number of occurrences. Games of
both color arrangements (w/b and b/w) are included in the same
pairing. The list is sorted alphabetically.

Syntax: pairList filename.pgn

Usage: pairList alpha.pgn

Output: outPair. Original input file is unchanged.

Comments:

1. Each pairing is first sorted alphabetically by the two players.
Then all the pairings are sorted alphabetically.

2. "pairList" requires extra user patience when it is used with
very large input ".pgn" database files.