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Subject: Re: Attention David Dahlem: A tool for you.

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 05:41:30 09/28/05

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On September 28, 2005 at 01:18:11, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>On September 27, 2005 at 16:01:01, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On September 27, 2005 at 15:55:45, David Dahlem wrote:
>>
>>>>>The line breaks are after 32 half-moves. I think your program is reading the
>>>>>line breaks after 16 half-moves.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>You are correct. I thought your opening moves were on two lines per opening
>>>>line, instead of one... atleast that's the way it appeared in your first post ;)
>>>>
>>>>Download again, it's fixed.
>>>>
>>>>Joshua Haglund
>>>>toneewa@yahoo.com
>>>
>>>Thanks Joshua
>>>
>>>PGN Reverse will indeed convert the lines to pgn.
>>>
>>>I don't mean to nitpick, but there a 3 minor things is see in the output pgn ...
>>>
>>>[Event "PGN Reverse 1.0"]
>>>[Site "by Joshua Haglund"]
>>>[Date "2005.09.27"]
>>>[White "PGN Reverse 1.0"]
>>>[Black "by Joshua Haglund"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>
>>>e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 b8c6 f1b5 g8f6 e1g1 f6e4 d2d4 e4d6 b5c6 d7c6 d4e5 d6f5 d1d8 e8d8
>>>b1c3 c8d7 f1d1 d8c8 f3g5 d7e8 b2b3 b7b6 c1b2 f8e7 g5e4 c8b7 d1d3 a8d8 a1d1 d8d3*
>>>
>>>The pgn standard calls for seven basic tags, and the 'Round' tag is missing. And
>>>there are not any line numbers. Finally, this 'd8d3*' should be 'd8d3 *'. These
>>>minor things don't bother me, but they might bother other users. And i'm not
>>>sure whether various interfaces will choke on missing line numbers. :-)
>>>
>>>I can run your output pgn through pgn-extract, and the result looks like this,
>>>in San notation ...
>>>
>>>[Event "PGN Reverse 1.0"]
>>>[Site "by Joshua Haglund"]
>>>[Date "2005.09.27"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "PGN Reverse 1.0"]
>>>[Black "by Joshua Haglund"]
>>>[Result "*"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8.
>>>Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Bd7 10. Rd1 Kc8 11. Ng5 Be8 12. b3 b6 13. Bb2 Be7 14. Nge4 Kb7
>>>15. Rd3 Rd8 16. Rad1 Rxd3 *
>>>
>>>Thanks for this tool
>>>Dave
>>
>>Of course, i meant to say "missing move numbers", not "missing line numbers".
>>:-)
>>
>>Regards
>>Dave
>
>Yeah, Chessbase handles it just fine, converts the notation, etc... I don't use
>any other interface(except Winboard)... so I won't adapt anything to those... :P
>
>Pretty much... you'll get by ;)
>
>I fixed the "d3d8*" to "d3d8 *"... if you want to download it again, but you
>shouldn't have too... ;) I also added the [Round "?"] tag... I saw no reason to
>have this really... but oh well ;) It's there now. Sorry, not going to add move
>numbers right now... don't hold your breathe. ;)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Joshua Haglund
>toneewa@yahoo.com

Hi Joshua

Ok, just thought i'd mention those little things. No problem for me, PGN Reverse
will do what i need. :-)

Thanks
Dave



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