Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:49:44 12/01/99
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On December 01, 1999 at 02:10:04, Howard Exner wrote: >I use Rebel to create the epd strings. >I see the difference is that you reversed the id and bm ordering >as well as the quotes around the id. > >Will some programs not be able to read the first posting? >If so, thanks for making it more universal. Whatever the standard is >I think that it would be nice if all programs used that standard. Rebel's EPD output is not standard. However, most programs do not even try to emit EPD. The best EPD output (according to the PGN standard) is crafty, but that should not be surprising. Steven J. Edwards (author of the standard) wrote the EPD processing code. The second best is Hiarcs, and Rebel is third. Many programs can read EPD but few seem to bother to write it and they don't seem be concerned if the output conforms exactly to the standard. I have to write a separate parser for each program that C.A.P. uses and that would not be necessary if they follwed the rules. I'm not complaining very loud, though, because I am intensely grateful that they produce something that is at least usable. Many programs simply cannot make anything resembling EPD output.
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