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Subject: Re: notation

Author: chris sergel

Date: 19:24:11 10/30/00

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On October 30, 2000 at 20:38:17, Pete Galati wrote:

>On October 30, 2000 at 19:21:27, chris sergel wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know a way to automatically transpose correspondence notation
>>(numeric) into pgn notation for reporting game results?
>>Not only is it tedious to rewrite the whole game for a different notation, but I
>>think it also leads to many clerical errors.
>>Surely there must be a program that can do this.
>
>I'm not familier with correspondence notation.  By numeric, do you mean like 1.
>d2-d4?
>
>Try reading it into Crafty "read [filename]" and then saving it to a new pgn
>file "savegame [filename]".  Crafty won't append to an existing file, it would
>overwrite it I think.
>
>Pete


Numeric notation that they use for international email is very strange.  It uses
to numeric coordiantes for each move.  Thus e2-e4  is 5254.  An opening might
look like 1. 5254 5756  2. 4244 4745  3. 2133 6824  would be the French Winawer.
 Everybody I know hates this notation, and many agree to use algebraic notation
and not tell anybody.  It's very easy to make a clerical and lose a game.  After
going through all this we have to rewrite the game in pgn notation for
submission.  I was hoping there might be a program of some sort that could do
that.




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