Talk:Portable Game Notation

message: With respect to the person with IP Address: 213.78.76.88
"Why the XML evangalism in a PGN context"
It is very sad that people like this fail to see the truth of the matter or are even not bothered to find out what XML is before deleting a very valid point that PGN is an increasingly backward ,primitive, and non-extensible tagging of a chess game. There are already various XML implementations for chess if the person had been at all bothered to find out or investigate this area.
Cax XML :- http://www.chesscity.com/RESOURCES/chess_tech.htm
Checkmate XML: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/08/25/tourist.html
Simple XML for chess: http://chess.arska.org/sxc/
XML Definitions for chess: http://palamede.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$47
Chess viewer making use of XML: http://www.renderx.com/chess.html
PGN XML viewer: http://www.cybercom.net/~zbrad/Chess/pgnxml/
Chess and XML: http://geekswithblogs.net/ansari/archive/2004/08/28/10328.aspx
:This is an article on PGN, not XML. --Malathion 13:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: The example shown should include all the different types of things in a PGN that are possible: Queen-side castling, promotions, two knights able to move to the same spot, annotations, etc. I understand that it should be a notable game (such as that of Fischer and Spassky), but we should find another one, so that people can actually see how it all fits together. 70.111.219.18 12:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: PGN relies on Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN) for all that.  Thus, it may be enough to refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess) which covers that subject. Athulin (talk) 15:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: I found just like the example that stalemates are noted by adding the 1/2-1/2 notation at the game end, but it would be helpful to note there is no notation for stalemate in the text.
Ryan
:Actually, that's how draws are indicated, not stalemates specifically. All stalemates are draws, but not all draws are stalemates.—Chowbok ☠ 23:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add clarification on stalemate 

message: What would the MIME type of the PGN file be? application/x-pgn or something like this? —msikma (user, talk) 16:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now officially application/vnd.chess-pgn.—Chowbok ☠ 00:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  MIME type 

message: This article needs some context : something about the history of PGN, as well as its advantages + disadvantages. All the article is at the moment is an instruction manual, but see the guideline Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook or textbook.  Peter Ballard (talk) 03:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it is not a manual.  Bubba73 (talk), 15:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article contains no context 

message: The EF BB BF prolog is actually the Byte order mark, indicating unicode encoding (presumably utf-8, since the rest of the file still looks like regular ascii).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.76.190.72 (talk) 14:19, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The PGN Standard document (though I don't know if the copy I have found is authoritative) says that PGN files must be in a subset of the ISO 8859-1 encoding. (That is presumably intended to be ISO 8859-1 for graphic characters, and presumably the control characters of ANSI/ISO 646/..., as 8859-1 does not specify control characters at all. PGN also requires support for \n, at the very least. Athulin (talk) 15:18, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

text: Added: Best source for PGN standard right now seems to be http://tim-mann.org/Standard . See http://www.anders.thulin.name/posts/pgn/ for the reason why. Athulin (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chesbase PNG Formats 

message: It's so universal and ubiquitous now, it would probably be easier to make a list of chess software that can't process PGN. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 05:41, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of programs