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PGNBook is now called PGNXtract. The name change is intended to make it clear that this is primarily about filtering PGN files with pgn-extract. The fact that you can also create a Polyglot opening book from the generated PGN files is a nice side effect. When creating an opening book, you have to answer the following questions beforehand (please refer to the readme file for more details):

Remove games by using tag files [y]?
Remove games with setup tags (e.g. Chess960) [y]?
Remove comments, NAGs and variations [y]?
Maximum number of plies (optional):
Additional parameters for pgn-extract (optional):
Remove duplicate games [y]?

The player list was only generated in connection with the move average list. The player list is now always generated.

PGNBook is a batch processing tool for Windows that processes PGN files and creates Polyglot books.

Initial questions changed.

Added support for ELOstat.

Bayeselo is now also supported.

Standard deviations (errors) are now also calculated.

Parameters -W and -D added when calling Ordo (see documentation for more details). Display of columns limited to the necessary ones in the output of Ordo.

You can now also define a chess engine and a rating as a reference for creating a rating list using Ordo.

PGNStat is a batch processing tool for Windows (consisting of a Windows batch file), which processes PGN files and creates several statistics as a result. One of the main tasks is to create a move average list. The batch file requires third-party tools which should be downloaded first. For further information, please read the readme file.