Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 02:14:00 10/19/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 22:35:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 18, 2000 at 16:22:36, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On October 18, 2000 at 14:11:03, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On October 18, 2000 at 14:07:24, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>> >>>>My conclusion from your list is the PGN standard is poorly designed. It lacks >>>>flexibility and makes outright bad decisions. It is obvious that some of the >>>>reasons for the variations are that there are *good* reasons to vary. >>> >>>I'm not sure what you mean by this. What is a good example of a reason to vary >>>some of these things? >> >>#5 is motivated by the desire to work with the word wrap feature of many >>editors. Many people do not like to have the move number separated by a line >>from the move itself since they can be misled into thinking it is a move by >>Black. Omitting the space is an effective solution for this. It is perhaps a >>matter of taste, but there is no good reason not to accomodate this alternative >>form. Also, omitting the space is more compact. >> >>An example: >> >>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 4.Nxe5 | >>Qg5 5.Nxf7 Qxg2 6.Rf1 Qxe4 7.Be2 | >>Nf3# | >> >>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4 4. | >>Nxe5 Qg5 5. Nxf7 Qxg2 6. Rf1 Qxe4 | >>7. Be2 Nf3# | >> >>Note, the difference with the move 4.Nxe5. I prefer the first version, which >>avoids the separation of the move number from the move itself when the word-wrap >>feature is employed. >> >>Bruce Moreland listed some good suggestions in his post. >> >>"Inflexibility" is *my* primary gripe. See #13. > > >I totally disagree here. The purpose of a "standard" is _not_ "flexibility". >It is preciseness. IE the C pseudo-standard is lacking in many places. Is >a char signed or unsigned? Left up to implementors. Do bit fields start from >msb or lsb in a word? same answer. Hard to call something a "standard" when >you can't measure anything against it, because _anything_ will pass it. > >I despise 1.e4 moves. Why? a parsing issue. I use the output specs and >have been happy. I try to parse all the idiot ways of saying "castle" but >that ought not be a problem if everyone just 'read' the standard. Says the man who precedes black moves with N. ... <move> :) (Sorry - I couln't help it)
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