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Subject: Re: Where we've been and where we're going in the discussion on XML

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 12:29:50 06/10/04

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On June 10, 2004 at 15:05:28, Jon Dart wrote:

>On June 10, 2004 at 14:59:38, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On June 10, 2004 at 14:45:04, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>>
>>>I think we
>>>should stay away from anything that uses PNBRQK within the notation, and shoot
>>>for as much simplicity as possible.
>>
>>As Dan Honeycutt pointed out in the other thread, coordinate notation still
>>requires NBQR for promotions, ex. e7e8Q.
>
>Plus, my $0.02 is that we already have a good standard for moves (SAN). Why
>change to something else?
>
>--Jon

For the reasons I mentioned, lower overhead (much easier to code for coordinate
notation), and because it avoids using PNBRQK, which helps in the international
community.



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