Answers.Body: <p>The SCID tool's focus is on collections of positions more than single games.  </p>
  
  <p>Accordingly, the best way to do what you're trying to do is to deal with the PGN directly.  PGN is flat text and available in SCID.</p>
  
  <p>If you want part of a game, the typical action is to copy the PGN into a text document from SCID, and edit the part that you wish.  Load your edited game back into SCID if you want ..</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If you open the PGN window you can right click over a trait and select to delete all moves before that one.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am looking for something similar to <a href="http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/progref.html#game_truncate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sc_game truncate</a>, but to remove preceding moves (from a current position), rather than remaining ones.
  Does such a function exist in the API exposed to scripts called via tcscid.exe?</p>
  
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Title: Does SCID have a command for removing preceding moves in a game?
ThreadText: # Does SCID have a command for removing preceding moves in a game?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-21)
  
  I am looking for something similar to [sc\_game truncate](http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/progref.html#game_truncate), but to remove preceding moves (from a current position), rather than remaining ones.
  Does such a function exist in the API exposed to scripts called via tcscid.exe?
  
  **Tags:** scid
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-02-21. Score: 1
  
  The SCID tool's focus is on collections of positions more than single games.
  
  Accordingly, the best way to do what you're trying to do is to deal with the PGN directly. PGN is flat text and available in SCID.
  
  If you want part of a game, the typical action is to copy the PGN into a text document from SCID, and edit the part that you wish. Load your edited game back into SCID if you want ..
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-02-22. Score: 0
  
  If you open the PGN window you can right click over a trait and select to delete all moves before that one.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: clarified question - I am looking to automate this  
  
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