Author: Andreas Stabel
Date: 08:00:14 06/02/98
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I just want to clarify a couple of things conserning todays PGN standard that perhaps also may affect PGN 98. The first is the use of symbols to represent that something is not known. The PGN standard specifies several different symbols depending on the place you need an unknown symbol and I think that is bad. When I parse PGN files I see the symbols '?', '*', '-', ' ' and even some others to signify that something like the result is not known. There are several places where an unknown value is needed like the result, date, site, event and even name tags, and if my interpretation of the standard is correct you may use at least three of the above symbols to show that something is unknown in todays standard. The second is from a discussion I've had recently with Mr. Hyatt about how the black move number should be written. Crafty outputs 15. ... Nf3 and my opinion is that 15... Nf3 is the correct way. The point is that both Mr. Hyatt and me think that we have read the standard carefully to come up with our view so the standard is perhaps not clear enough on this point. Finally I want to say that whatever the new PGN standard is decided to be it has to be strictly and formally defined with no ambiguity and that as far as possible it should be backwards compatible. I must say I became a bit worried when you said that there will be no difference between the import end export format. Perhaps you could expand on this. Best reagards Andreas Stabel
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