Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 05:38:23 11/15/00
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On November 14, 2000 at 14:13:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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? Forsythe only did the position specification, it has been used since ages to write down adjourned position. The side to move, castling and en-passant rights, move number and 50-move rule ply counter are due to Edwards. José.
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