Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 12:45:25 05/04/02
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>Maybe you think about the epd-format that was intended for computer reading. No. >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. " As already stated elswhere, despite this formulation, the main benefactor is portability between computer programs. I don't rule out human readability. >But the least the could do was to offer the user to switch off this extention, I agree. >it's kind of rude to force people to use this format for exchange on the >Internet. [Event "here at home"] [Site "Internet"] [Date "2002.05.04"] [Round "1.1"] [White "Patzer, Lousy"] [Black "Amateur, Halfwit"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C20"] [WhiteElo "200"] [BlackElo "150"] [Annotator "Dorp,van,Jeroen"] [PlyCount "9"] [EventDate "2002.??.??"] [SourceDate "2002.05.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Qg4 $2 (2. Nf3 $142 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O $11) (2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 $36) 2... c5 3. Bc4 Na6 $2 $18 (3... Nf6 4. Nf3 (4. Nc3 Be7 (4... Ke7 $143 $2) 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O) 4... b6 5. -- Bb7 $140) 4. Qf5 d6 $4 (4... Nf6) 5. Qxf7# 1-0 was forced on us also. But maybe I need new glasses. ;) J.
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