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Subject: Re: Chess piece abbreviations

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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