Free sports and club file tools: swim meets, chess
Tools for club coaches, team managers, meet organisers and chess players who need to read a file without the program that made it, find out why an import fails, or move entries and results between systems.
The swim meet file tool opens Hy-Tek HY3 and CL2 files, SDIF files from US team software, Lenex files from SPLASH, EasyWk and swimrankings.net, and meet event files sent out for entries. It checks every line and reports wrong checksums, cut-off files, duplicate athletes, ages that do not match birth dates, incomplete relays and split times that do not add up.
You can download a repaired copy of a Hy-Tek file with its checksums recalculated, convert between HY3, SDIF and Lenex, or export results, relays, entries and splits to Excel with real times that sort and add up.
For chess players, coaches and clubs, the ChessBase converter turns ChessBase databases (.cbh, and the .2cbh format of ChessBase 17 and 18) into PGN without ChessBase, which only runs on Windows. Variations, comments in every language, symbols, arrows, coloured squares, clock times and engine evaluations are kept, so the games open with their annotations in Lichess studies, Scid, ChessX or En Croissant.
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Swim Meet File Converter (Beta)Open, check and convert swim-meet files: Hy-Tek HY3 and CL2, SDIF, Lenex (SPLASH) and meet event files. Fix checksum errors, export results to Excel.
Opens HY3, CL2, SD3, LXF, LEF, HYV, EV3, ZIP → saves XLSX, CSV, LXF, CL2, HY3
Popular: Fix HY3 checksum errors · Open HY3 and CL2 meet results in Excel · Convert Lenex (.lxf) results to SDIF / CL2 · Convert HY3 and CL2 files to Lenex · Convert CL2 / SDIF files to HY3
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ChessBase to PGN Converter (CBH, 2CBH, CBV) (Beta)Turn ChessBase databases (.cbh, .2cbh from ChessBase 17 and 18, and .cbv archives) into PGN without ChessBase, keeping variations, comments, symbols, arrows, coloured squares, clock times and engine evaluations.
Opens CBH, 2CBH, CBV, CBZ, CBG, CBA, ZIP → saves PGN, CSV, HTML
Popular: CBV to PGN: open a ChessBase archive without ChessBase · CBH to PGN: convert a ChessBase database online · Open a ChessBase database on a Mac, without ChessBase · 2CBH to PGN: ChessBase 17 and 18 databases · Move a ChessBase database to Lichess studies