Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:03:02 05/04/02
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On May 04, 2002 at 14:34:11, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >Seems the thread splitted for some reason.... > >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?228006 > >J. PGN is a readable and portable format. It serves several purposes. If I want to use all the cool features of the ChessBase database programs I simply use one their cbh-databases and I don't complain the resulting files are not readable. But PGN's main advantage to me is that it is plain,readable text. When a game in PGN is posted in the fora I can have a quick look at the text and get an idea if this game is interesting to me and follow the moves. My personal main database program is notepad and sometimes wordpad for more advanced tasks and they work very well for me. But with plain text even quite complicated tasks can be done. I have a little awk-utility for example to merge different games together into a tournament, to alter the headers,change the language etc. I think I will have to do a little conversion from ChessBase-PGN to plain-PGN tool now to not lose the engine information I want to have included. Why change PGN when it is not broken? ChessBase could obviously do all it wants with their own format. Peter
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