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Subject: Re: Speaking of PGN (readable)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:06:37 06/13/04

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On June 13, 2004 at 09:53:13, James T. Walker wrote:

>On June 12, 2004 at 20:02:46, Alexander Kure wrote:
>
>>On June 12, 2004 at 17:12:49, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know why Chessbase has elected to use the garbage output for PGN?
>>>There seems to be no way to make Fritz/Shredder etc.  output plain readable PGN.
>>>Jim
>>
>>Dear Jim,
>>
>>Go to the menue "Tools" -> "Options". This will open the options dialog.
>>Switch to the pane "Clipboard". There you can set PGN output to "old format".
>>If you don't want Fritz to store "thinking time", "evaluation" and "expected
>>move" you can switch it off by selecting the "Clocks and Notation" pane in the
>>same dialog.
>>Hope this helps!
>>
>>Greetings
>>Alex
>
>That makes a good story but it has never worked for me.  Of course I tried it
>years ago when Chessbase first started the garbage output which as far as I can
>determine, _nobody_ likes.  I want the extra stuff in the file such as
>time/eval/ponder move.
>Jim


This is why an updated "standard" is needed.  So that every program can produce
information that other programs can read/use.  Right now it is all ad hoc...



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