Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:52:44 06/23/01
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On June 23, 2001 at 19:10:59, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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 Thank you, that is exactly what I wanted. bruce
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