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Subject: Re: Chess piece abbreviations

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 16:10:59 06/23/01

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On June 23, 2001 at 18:59:48, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>Does anybody know where I can get a list in German, Spanish, French, etc.?
>
>I know that R in German is T, etc., but a lot more of that is what I'm looking
>for.
>
>Thank you,
>
>bruce

From the PGN "standard.txt"

17: Alternative chesspiece identifier letters

English language piece names are used to define the letter set for identifying
chesspieces in PGN movetext.  However, authors of programs which are used only
for local presentation or scanning of chess move data may find it convenient to
use piece letter codes common in their locales.  This is not a problem as long
as PGN data that resides in archival storage or that is exchanged among
programs still uses the SAN (English) piece letter codes: "PNBRQK".

For the above authors only, a list of alternative piece letter codes are
provided:

Language     Piece letters (pawn knight bishop rook queen king)
----------   --------------------------------------------------
Czech        P J S V D K
Danish       B S L T D K
Dutch        O P L T D K
English      P N B R Q K
Estonian     P R O V L K
Finnish      P R L T D K
French       P C F T D R
German       B S L T D K
Hungarian    G H F B V K
Icelandic    P R B H D K
Italian      P C A T D R
Norwegian    B S L T D K
Polish       P S G W H K
Portuguese   P C B T D R
Romanian     P C N T D R
Spanish      P C A T D R
Swedish      B S L T D K


Odd Gunnar Malin



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