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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