Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:44:59 06/15/98
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On June 15, 1998 at 01:47:52, Steven J. Edwards wrote: >Fellow Programmers: > >In working with Crafty's opening book PGN file wall.pgn, I noticed an >error in SAN in one of the games. (There may be more than one; this is >the first.) It shows up at line 3,864,317 in column 47; it is a pawn >capture "exf1" but has no promotion indication. > >Have other PGN readers choked on this? If not, then they should have. >It is incorrect to assume a promotion to a queen. > >Anyway, having nearly four million lines of good PGN before the first >problem is still pretty good. > >-- Steven (sje@mv.mv. there are a couple of other glitches in the file too. I've never tried to fix them, as the file was not made by me, and it is a royal pain to try to edit something that big... :) there are a few bogus games in there too, ie one opponent is "roborvl" which was a computer program that ran on ICC for a good while...
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