Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:40:16 06/10/04
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On June 10, 2004 at 16:46:02, Marek Strejczek wrote:
>I have only a little experience with XML, however realize that the new format
>should be also relatively readable for humans - many people can follow a chess
>game quite far just by looking at the SAN moves - however, only a few can do it
>having coordinate notation only. And they may prefer this kind of game browsing
>if they want to e.g. just have a glance at the openings.
The problem is that the moves won't be a normal list of moves like 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nf6, etc. It will look more like this:
<MoveList>
<MoveElement>
<Time format="seconds">6</Time>
<Eval pov="white">0.60</Eval>
<Ply>10</Ply>
<PV>e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6</PV>
<Move>e2e4</Move>
</MoveElement>
<MoveElement>
<Time format="seconds">7</Time>
<Eval pov="black">0.20</Eval>
<Ply>9</Ply>
<Move>e7e5</Move>
</MoveElement>
</MoveList>
Now consider that there might be a dozen other possible tags for each move, in
addition to <Time>, <Eval>, <Ply>, <PV>, and <Move>. Following the game from the
XML file isn't going to be very easy regardless of the notation which is used.
Therefore, human readability shouldn't be a major factor.
>In most environments
>some kind of a lister application is always at hand, and very fast, while using
>specialized application to open the games files may take too much time, the
>application may be unavailable at the moment etc.
>
>Therefore, my 0.02$ is a suggestion to make the notation as readable for humans
>as possible, because computers don't get tired of move parsing anyway, and:
>1) programmers will soon have ready reusable components for parsing (so it is
>rather a one time effort to implement more complex parser)
>2) most of those programmers will be GUI programmers - so engine developers will
>not lose much time at implementing it, even without those components.
>
>Marek Strejczek
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