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Subject: Re: Flame: Sad usage of PGN tag pairs

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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