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Subject: False alarm, no Y2K bug!

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 22:12:15 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 13:54:21, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On January 17, 2000 at 01:38:16, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I was looking 1996 Deep Blue games with Nimzo. Their tag is this kind:
>>
>>[Event "ACM Chess Challenge"]
>>[Site "Philadelphia Convention Center"]
>>[Date "96.02.10"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "Deep Blue"]
>>[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
>>[Opening "Alapin Sicilian"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>
>>Nimzo displays year as 0096! Funny...
>>
>>Jouni
>
>This is not a bug, but rather a bad PGN header. It is very clear in the standard
>that the year should be fully written, i.e. the date for that game should read
>1996.02.10 (assuming the game was played the tenth of february of 1996).
>José.

You are 100% right! Jounui



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