Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:13:42 11/14/00
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On November 14, 2000 at 07:57:57, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On November 14, 2000 at 07:54:40, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>On November 14, 2000 at 07:34:44, Leen Ammeraal wrote: >> >>>Can someone please explain the file name extensions >>>.pgn and .fen to me? Are they abbreviations? >>>Leen Ammeraal >> >>PGN = Portable Game Notation >>FEN : I don't remember well , sorry > >FEN is "Forsyth-Edwards Notation"; it is a standard for describing chess >positions using the ASCII character set. > >Taken from: http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~wehner/chess/fentxt.html I am not sure where the "Edwards" in Forsythe-Edwards Notation came from. I used this notation in 1973. I got it from a program named "Coko" written by Dennis Cooper and Ed Kozdrowicki. That program played in the first ACM event in 1970. I knew this form of notation as "Forsythe" back then. The "edwards" might have come from Steven formalizing it into a specification?
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