Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 02:36:30 10/19/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 13:41:49, Richard A. Fowell wrote: > 1) wraps movetext lines to less or more than the required 79 character maximum > 2) Omits required empty line after movetext (especially at end of file) > 3) Omits required empty line separating tags from movetext > 4) Tags not in required order (standard seven in std order, then alphabetic) > 5) Omits the space after the periods, e.g. "1.e4" instead of "1. e4". > 6) Inserts non-PGN lines, before/between PGN games in PGN file [TWIC does this] > 7) Fails to use the "#" to indicate checkmate (uses "+", "++", or no marker) > 8) Extra spaces added to make move columns line up prettily (ICC used to) > 9) Uses lower case "o" or zeros instead of upper case "O" in "O-O" and "O-O-O" >10) Ending token ( such as 1-0) is omitted, or conflicts with Result tag. >11) Use of "1/2" rather than "1/2-1/2" in Result tag or ending token. >12) Omits the periods in the movetext >13) Non-standard promotion indicators (such as b8Q or B8(Q) vs. b8=Q ) >14) Date tag in non-standard format ( 10/31/2000 or 10.31.2000 vs 2000.10.31) >15) "ep" or "e.p." added after en passant capture >16) Uses coordinate notation (e2e4 or e2-e4) rather than SAN >17) Uses long algebraic notation: like Ng1-f3, rather than SAN >18) Inserts a blank in front of # ( "21. Qa8 #" vs. "21. Qa8#") I think that other common problems are: the mess in the variations (this is due to the weakness of the standard on this side) and also the abuse/misuse of some nags: many progrmas don't handle them properly, e.g. Chess Assistant even uses some extra signs that other programs don't understand. regards Franz
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