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Subject: Re: notation

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 23:23:34 10/30/00

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>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.

It is extremely simple to write a converter for that system, given any SAN
capable chess program such as my own. Just write a little extra command to, say,
crafty.



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