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Subject: Re: The PGN specification, and attempts to change it

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:06:18 09/10/01

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On September 10, 2001 at 13:19:37, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>The PGN standard seems to be owned by Steven J. Edwards.  The standard is
>extremely important, and he hasn't made any changes to it for the past several
>years, so there is now an attempt to declare him unimportant and change the
>spec.
>
>A post detailing these changes was submitted to r.g.c.c. a few days ago.  The
>changes are being authored by:
>
>Alan Cowderoy (Palamede), Ben Bulsink (DGT Projects), Andrew
>Templeton(Palamede/Palview), Eric Bentzen (Enpassant.dk, Palamede), Mathias
>Feist
>(Chessbase), Victor Zakharov (Chess Assistant).

It would be nice if they also posted it here.  Anybody have a link?

>I know who some of these people are, but not all of them.  DGT makes chess
>boards, CA and CB are well-known, and Palamede looks like it's just a chess
>website.
>
>There are many topics for discussion here:
>
>1) Is Steven J. Edwards out, and if so, is this how ownership of the standard is
>supposed to be passed?

They should contact him and ask, especially since there are copyright issues.

>2) Is this a fait-accompli since Chessbase and Chess Assistant have apparently
>signed on to this?

Could well be.

Dave



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