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Subject: Re: Why re-invent the weel? SGF has been around for a while now.

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 13:22:14 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 16:12:51, Dan Andersson wrote:

> There are already working alternatives. And the Smart Game Format has been
>around for quite some time. They would surely be interested in input and ideas
>from chess programmers.
>http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/
>An XML version
>http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/xml/
>
>MvH Dan Andersson


Wow...talk about illegible. That format is vastly different from PGN. We'd be
reinventing the wheel more to go to something like that than to simply extend
and upgrade PGN as it is.



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