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Subject: Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard?

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 12:19:56 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.
>

Maybe you think about the epd-format that was intended for computer reading.
The pgn-standard was meant for both human and computer.

"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. "

They could have used the escape mechanism inside the PGN-standerd instead of
inventing their own.

But the least the could do was to offer the user to switch off this extention,
it's kind of rude to force people to use this format for exchange on the
Internet.

Odd Gunnar

• Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard? Jeroen van Dorp 12:45:25 05/04/02
  • Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard? Odd Gunnar Malin 13:04:21 05/04/02
    • Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard? Jeroen van Dorp 13:33:12 05/04/02
      • Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard? Jeroen van Dorp 13:35:58 05/04/02
        • Re: I wonder.... wasn't PGN developed as a *computer* standard? Odd Gunnar Malin 14:14:24 05/04/02

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