Answers.Body: <p>In Chessbase, copy the games to a temp database, right click the file, go to tools and select Unannotate db, then copy to the games to a pgn file.</p>
  
  <p>Edited to note Unannotate doesn't work on pgn files directly.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks a lot! Efficient solution. Note that the right click should be done in the cbh file before copying the game to the pgn file.
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Answers.Text: I'd copy them to a temp database first so you don't lose the annotations in the original db.
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Answers.Body: <p>Goto <a href="https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/help.html#suppress" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/help.html#suppress</a> and look for Suppress annotations in the output.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Using ChessBase 13, I saved a bunch of games in PGN format. Is there a simple way to suppress the comments of all annotated games? I would like to avoid doing it one by one.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: pgnextract can easily do it.
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Tags: <pgn><chessbase><annotation>
Title: Delete annotations in pgn games
ThreadText: # Delete annotations in pgn games
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-17)
  
  Using ChessBase 13, I saved a bunch of games in PGN format. Is there a simple way to suppress the comments of all annotated games? I would like to avoid doing it one by one.
  
  **Tags:** pgn, chessbase, annotation
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: pgnextract can easily do it.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-11-19. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  In Chessbase, copy the games to a temp database, right click the file, go to tools and select Unannotate db, then copy to the games to a pgn file.
  
  Edited to note Unannotate doesn't work on pgn files directly.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks a lot! Efficient solution. Note that the right click should be done in the cbh file before copying the game to the pgn file.  
  > **username_2**: I'd copy them to a temp database first so you don't lose the annotations in the original db.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-11-17. Score: 1
  
  Goto <https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/help.html#suppress> and look for Suppress annotations in the output.
  
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