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Subject: Re: Fritz 5.0 and PGN.

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 23:03:45 10/13/97

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On October 13, 1997 at 03:57:55, Manfred Rosenboom wrote:

>Hi Keith,
>
>the symbols $19, $5, ... are so called NAGs (Numeric Annotation Glyphs)
>and
>part of the PGN standard. In the meantime it is common to use the usual
>symbols !, !!, ?, ??, !?, ? also in PGN files, but this is *not* PGN
>compliant !
>Every program reading PGN files should be able either to ignore the NAGs
>or to interpret them right.
>
>BTW: I know the reverse effect in ChessBase: I imported PGN games, using
>symbols like ! into ChessBase 6 and this symbols where simply ignored by
>ChessBase: one hundred games, mostly with annotation symbols, imported
>and all symbols vanished :-(
>
>Manfred

Thank you for your reply. I suspected they were part of PGN, but I
wasn't sure. I appreciate the information.

kp



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