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Subject: Re: ChessGenius Palm: 2 games where CG blunders

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 13:21:41 01/24/01

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<RANT>

There is a contradiction here between:

On January 23, 2001 at 20:01:07, Mark Rawlings wrote:

>ChessGenius . . . . saves games in PGN also!
>
>Mark

and the actual format of ChessGenius' saved games:

>On January 22, 2001 at 15:08:31, Werner Schuele wrote:
>
>>ChessGenius running on PalmIIIc with cruise control:
>>30 sec per move against SargonV on K6-2 300
>>
>>[Event "S5 K6-2 300-CG 1-0 22.1.01 19:05"]
>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 Nxd6 7. Qe5+ Be6 8.
...
>>Qe8 47. Qxe8# 1-0


At best, this is a "PGN-like" saved game.  The PGN standard REQUIRES the
standard seven headers, not just the Event header.  Until Richard does this, he
should stop claiming the ChessGenius can export PGN.  How hard could it be to be
PGN compliant:

[Event "You-ChessGenius 1-0 1-24-2001 19:05"]  <-- keep info for Note indexing
[Site "Palm IIIe"]
[Date "1-24-2001"]
[Round "?"]
[White "You"]
[Black "ChessGenius 1.2"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 e5 ... 47. Qxe8# 1-0

</RANT>

Ian



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