Portable Game Notation

Portable Game Notation (PGN ) is a data format for storing chess games. It was developed in 1994 by Stephen J. Edwards, to enable the exchange of data between different chess chess programs (for example, via the Internet) and simplified.

The PGN format uses characters from the ISO -8859- 1 character set ( includes ASCII characters as well as many special characters of Western European languages) and consists of two parts: the metadata, and the trains. In the first part, the metadata information such as tournament, place, date, round, player names, results and other information will be collected in standardized fields. The notation of trains is achieved in the standard Algebraic Notation ( SAN ): This is the abbreviated algebraic notation generally used, with the letters of the names of the figures (K = King ( King ), Q = Queen ( Dame ), R = Rook ( tower ), B = Bishop ( runners ) and N = Knight ( Springer ) ) are used. Comments are enclosed in curly braces { }.

The format is not proprietary, it can therefore by almost all chess programs, as well as word processing programs, are read. Often an export of a lot into PGN format is possible. Also, several games are stored in a single PGN file.

Example game in PGN

[Event " Kasparov vs. IBM. Deep Blue Rematch " ] [Site "New York, NY USA" ] [ Date " 11/05/1997 " ] [ Round " 6" ] [ White " Deep Blue" ] [ Black " Kasparov, Garry " ] [ Opening " Caro-Kann: 4 .. ND7 " ] [ ECO " B17 " ] [ Result " 1-0 " ]   1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 ND7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6 8.Nxe6 Qe7 9.oo fxe6 10.Bg6 Kd8 { Kasparov briefly shakes his head } 11.Bf4 b5 12.a4 Bb7 13.Re1 ND5 14.Bg3 KC8 15.axb5 cxb5 16.Qd3 BC6 17.Bf5 exf5 18.Rxe7 Bxe7 19.c4 1-0 see also

  • Forsyth -Edwards Notation
  • GBR Code
  • Smart Game Format
Forsyth–Edwards Notation GBR-Code
656992
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