Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 11:57:20 05/04/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 14:32:06, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >On May 04, 2002 at 11:12:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>the format is not senseful for human. >>and i am human too. > >To be honest, I thought that the format was developed to provide a standard for >computer programs, not for humans. No, the spirit of PGN certainly includes humans. see the first paragraph of the standard: 1: Introduction PGN is "Portable Game Notation", a standard designed for the representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. PGN is structured for easy reading and writing by human users and for easy parsing and generation by computer programs. The intent of the definition and propagation of PGN is to facilitate the sharing of public domain chess game data among chessplayers (both organic and otherwise), publishers, and computer chess researchers throughout the world. >And in reality, I hardly read the PGN. I copy and paste it in my chess programs >- again - because I thought *that* was the objective of the portable game >notation standard. Some people read the pgn. For instance, I almost always do. >Readability is no added value, it's just a nice incidental. >Most game formats are unreadable in text format. Take a look at ChessBase's CBH >in a word processor, but does anyone consider *this* to be a problem? The binary format of the PGN (which was never used) was intended for this purpose, not the text one. Regards, Miguel > > >J.
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