Answers.Body: <p>I have not tried this myself, but there is a forum post on chess.com that has instructions on how to do this in SCID (<a href="http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/sorting-a-pgn" rel="noreferrer">http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/sorting-a-pgn</a>)</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Make an empty scid database</li>
  <li>Import your games</li>
  <li>Do database maintenance - Sort by date</li>
  <li>Export your databse to PGN</li>
  </ol>
  
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Answers.Text: The OP didn't ask what was the cheapest or the best tool, just if there was a way. Naturally, free is great. But I think Chessbase is worth the price. So I would stick with my answer regardless of cost.
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Answers.Body: <p>You can do it with ChessBase:
  <a href="http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/chessbase12_download" rel="nofollow">http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/chessbase12_download</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Because there wasn't anything better.
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Body: <p>Is there a way to sort a PGN chess game by date and export the sorted games as a new PGN file?</p>
  
Tags: <engines><software><pgn>
Title: How to sort a chess PGN game by date
ThreadText: # How to sort a chess PGN game by date
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-10)
  
  Is there a way to sort a PGN chess game by date and export the sorted games as a new PGN file?
  
  **Tags:** engines, software, pgn
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2013-12-17. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  I have not tried this myself, but there is a forum post on chess.com that has instructions on how to do this in SCID (<http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/sorting-a-pgn>)
  
  1. Make an empty scid database
  2. Import your games
  3. Do database maintenance - Sort by date
  4. Export your databse to PGN
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: The OP didn't ask what was the cheapest or the best tool, just if there was a way. Naturally, free is great. But I think Chessbase is worth the price. So I would stick with my answer regardless of cost.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-11. Score: 1
  
  You can do it with ChessBase:
  <http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/chessbase12_download>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Because there wasn't anything better.  
  
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