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Subject: Re: Is this new standard official?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:59:18 05/05/02

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On May 05, 2002 at 12:05:10, Manfred Schubert wrote:

>On May 04, 2002 at 23:06:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Nothing about this stuff is "official".  But the original PGN standard
>>allows _anything_ in the comments...  which is the way this works without
>>being a "new standard" at all...
>
>So should I support it, or not?
>
>If this is not an official standard, which organization holds the official PGN
>standard and where does this extension come from?


This is _not_ an "extension".  The PGN standard defines comments as
text inside {} characters, which means that _anything_ can be put in there,
including cryptic acronyms and scores...

Crafty will read this stuff just fine and ignore the comments just like
it should...



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