How to delete all annotations excluding variations in Fritz

Question

Suppose I load a game.

Now I want to delete all annotations only (excluding variations). What is the way to do it?

If I select, 'Delete All Commentary'

It removes both annotations and variations. Check screenshot.

How to remove annotations only or vice-versa?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '21 at 18:09

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I want to delete all annotations only (excluding variations). What is the way to do it?

The simple and obvious way to do this which works in all chess engine GUIs which support PGN is to save the game as PGN. PGN files are just text so you can then edit the file with a text editor and manually remove whatever you like, save it and then open again with Fritz or the GUI of your choice.

answered Jan 06 '21 at 18:09

Brian Towers

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What if the file is not PGN? – double-beep Jan 06 '21 at 18:17
@double-beep For Fritz the default is Chessbase format, i.e. cbh, I think. That is proprietary. – Brian Towers Jan 06 '21 at 18:39
Yes, I mean, in that case it wouldn't be possible to edit it, since it's not a text file. – double-beep Jan 06 '21 at 20:19
@double-beep Which is precisely why I say "save the game as PGN". All engine GUIs that I know have that as an option regardless of their default file format. – Brian Towers Jan 06 '21 at 22:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '21 at 07:46

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If you can save the game as PGN then pgn-extract has options to remove commentary, variations and NAGs, either separately or in combination. It's a free tool. Disclosure: I am the author of pgn-extract.

answered Jan 07 '21 at 07:46

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What you mean by NAGs? Notations? – Azeem Cv Jan 07 '21 at 08:02
NAG stands for Numeric Annotation Glyph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_Annotation_Glyphs), things like $1 or ??. They are part of the PGN standard. – kentdjb Jan 07 '21 at 12:44

How to delete all annotations excluding variations in Fritz

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