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

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 13:04:21 05/04/02

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On May 04, 2002 at 15:45:25, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>>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.

I totaly agree, what is this @140, $142, $143
This isn't the pgn-standard :)

The $4 is easy, that I see often in my games.

The difference in the above is that the interpreter (gui) know how to ignore
what it do not understand, when inventing a new use of a old tag the reading
become undefined.
Is it other than Fritz 7 that can read this format? My CA can't.

Odd Gunnar





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