Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 17:29:28 01/24/01
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On January 24, 2001 at 19:57:01, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Fritz doesn't have any problem opening up these pgn files, so they're close enough to the real thing... Mark
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