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SolitaryBishop

Jan 2, 2021

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#1

When I import pgn files from chess.com into Chessbase I end up with the mess in the picture below. I could delete all commentary and by doing so delete the timestamps as well but I actually want to keep and see the information about time per move, but in a more neat way. Any advice ?

Thanks all in advance

UPDATE: This was solved. Chessbase sees the "[%timestamp XXX]" as text commentary. Thus, simply use the Delete>Text Commentary option from the right click in the notation tab.

lerugray

Dec 5, 2022

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#2

SolitaryBishop wrote:

When I import pgn files from chess.com into Chessbase I end up with the mess in the picture below. I could delete all commentary and by doing so delete the timestamps as well but I actually want to keep and see the information about time per move, but in a more neat way. Any advice ?

Thanks all in advance

UPDATE: This was solved. Chessbase sees the "[%timestamp XXX]" as text commentary. Thus, simply use the Delete>Text Commentary option from the right click in the notation tab.

this did not work for me, or I basically wanted to leave the number of seconds (in purple) left without the timestamp crap, cant figure that out at all, driving me crazy

Martin_Stahl

Dec 5, 2022

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#3

lerugray wrote:

SolitaryBishop wrote:

When I import pgn files from chess.com into Chessbase I end up with the mess in the picture below. I could delete all commentary and by doing so delete the timestamps as well but I actually want to keep and see the information about time per move, but in a more neat way. Any advice ?

Thanks all in advance

UPDATE: This was solved. Chessbase sees the "[%timestamp XXX]" as text commentary. Thus, simply use the Delete>Text Commentary option from the right click in the notation tab.

this did not work for me, or I basically wanted to leave the number of seconds (in purple) left without the timestamp crap, cant figure that out at all, driving me crazy

PGN files are simple text files. If you have a tool/text editor that supports regex find/replace you could use that to replace all of them with a backspace.