Author: Gary Suffield
Date: 22:18:15 04/07/05
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On April 07, 2005 at 11:34:49, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >R Hyatt wrote : >>that is illegal PGN. Unless the standard has changed, the last time I looked >>promotions were indicated as dxc8=R, _not_ dxc8R >> > >You are right, Robert! > >In PGN standard 1994.03.12 at "8.2.3.3: Basic SAN move construction", one can >read : "Pawn promotions are denoted by the equal sign "=" immediately following >the destination square with a promoted piece letter (indicating one of knight, >bishop, rook, or queen) immediately following the equal sign. " > >But maybe you should consider accepting the faulty syntax without the "=" sign, >because : >- it's the way Chessbase exports games to PGN (...sighing...) >- it is not easy to correct this "by hand" >- other engines (Yace, Pharaon, ...) seem to accept the "relaxed" syntax > >Marc FWIW, my chessbase products (Fritz8 and CB9) all export to PGN properly ie promotions with the '='. I tried this with chessbase database format conversion to PGN, save game as and output as text.
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