Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 07:42:56 06/15/98
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On June 14, 1998 at 17:13:28, Steven J. Edwards wrote: [...] >After looking at many thousands of PGN games over the net, here's a lot >of what I see: Many of these are due to automatic conversion from .cbf format... >1) Event tag values of "?" (or worse, ""). Aw, c'mon, didn't the >original data recorder know what the event was? Even "Casual Game" or >"Test Game" would be better than nothing. >3) Missing or undecipherable Site tag values - same comments as above. >4) Mixing event and site information. >7) Missing Round numbers, particularly when the round somehow got >embedded into the Event or Site tag value where it doesn't belong. These are usually all stuffed into the source line in .cbf format. It's not so easy for a conversion program to figure out which part of the source line is the site, event, or round.
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