Author: Martin Grabriel
Date: 22:52:26 09/28/00
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On September 29, 2000 at 01:43:54, Richard A. Fowell wrote: >Chess Genius 1.2 for Palm (released today) now reads/writes games and positions. > >This update should be very welcome, since game save/load has been the #1 >user request in the comments I've seen on PalmGear >(see: http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=6018 >for user comments, download link, and home page link) > >More info (and free demo/update download) also at www.chessgenius.com. > >CG 1.2 reads PGN games, and positions encoded in PGN via the FEN tag. > >CG 1.2 also saves games as a memo in near-PGN format, which then can be >edited, deleted, categorized, or beamed using the built-in Palm memo >application. > >I say "near-PGN", since the output has several deviations from the PGN standard: >- only one of the seven standard PGN tags is written out [Event] >- the required blank lines before and after the movetext are missing >- there are no line breaks in the movetext. > >Other than that, Chess Genius output seems to be fully PGN compliant - I found >none of the many annoying deviations present in other programs. With the >above exceptions, it faithfully read and reproduced the standard IECC PGN >test game (appended). > >Chess Genius will also save positions created in Chess Genius, via the FEN tag. > >-Richard Fowell > >=========== cut here ========== >[Event "PGN Examples"] >[Site "IECC"] >[Date "1997.04.15"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Brown, Mary"] >[Black "Green, John"] >[Result "1-0"] > >1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 b6 4. O-O Bb7 5. d4 Qf6 6. c3 O-O-O 7. Nbd2 exd4 8. >cxd4 Nge7 9. d5 Ne5 10. Qe2 N7g6 11. Ba6 Bd6 12. Nxe5 Qxe5 13. Bxb7+ Kxb7 14. >Nf3 Qh5 15. b3 c5 16. dxc6+ dxc6 17. Bb2 Rhe8 18. Rfc1 Bf4 19. Rc4 Rd2 20. Qxd2 >Bxd2 21. Nxd2 Nf4 22. e5 f5 23. exf6 Qg5 24. g3 Ne2+ 25. Kf1 Qb5 26. f7 Kc8 27. >fxe8=Q+ Kc7 28. Rd4 Nc1+ 29. Kg1 c5 30. Qe3 Nxb3 31. axb3 g5 32. Rda4 c4 33. >Ra6 Qa5 34. R6xa5 c3 35. Nc4 cxb2 36. Rd1 b1=N 37. Qe4 Nc3 38. Rxa7+ Kb8 39. >Qb7# 1-0 > >=========== cut here ==========
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