Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:57:01 01/24/01
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On January 24, 2001 at 16:21:41, Ian Osgood wrote:
><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
Let me try to guess. On the Palm, there is a limit on the size of the texts
handled by the "MemoPad" program (the equivalent of Windows NotePad). This limit
is 8Kb.
I think it's a stupid limit, but the problem is that exporting to MemoPad is
really convenient (your games are saved automatically each time you synchronize
your Palm with your PC). So ChessGenius for Palm cannot create PGNs longer than
8Kb. So getting rid of part of the headers is a solution to save space...
I have not tried, but I believe most PGN readers would be able to read
ChessGenius PGN-like format, so I think the PGN-like format is OK.
Christophe
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