Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:48:42 09/30/05
As far as I know there has been no revision to the standard for ten years. Please correct me if I am wrong, and I would love to be wrong. Problems: 1) No clear definition of export standard. Is there one writer that is considered the standard? 2) NAGs do not correlate well with Informant/ECO symbols. There are some ECO meanings that don't exist, and other NAGs are ambiguous in that context. This sounds like a trivial problem, but it causes hell if you try to write something that reads PGN, converts to some sane format for editing, and then write it back out to PGN. 3) The standard allows comments in stupid places, some of which won't seem stupid to some people. Assume you are parsing a file, and you find a comment. You really want to attach it to a move. This is kind of hard to do if the comment follows the last game in the file, if it occurs between games, occurs in the middle of a tag, etc. Anyone else know of problems? Anyone else have any idea how to fix them? Last time I sent email to Steven J Edwards about this, he essentially told me that great minds were working on it, and that I should shut up and go away. That was in about 1997. bruce
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