Portable Game Notation
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Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a format for recording chess games in plain text devised in 1994 by Steven Edwards. PGN uses Standard Algebraic Notation (SAN) [1].
Contents
See also
- Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca
- Chess Query Language (CQL)
- Extended Position Description (EPD)
- Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN)
- Chess.jl
- python-chess
Blog & Forum Posts
1990 ...
- Revised PGN standard available by Steven Edwards, rgc, December 20, 1993
- PGN Standard - General Discussion - Compuserv Thread by Christopher A. Morgan, rgc, December 31, 1993
- Chess move binary encoding by Jeff Mallett via Steven Edwards, rgc, July 04, 1994
- PGN and other related Issues. POINTS ARISING by Mark Crowther, rgc, July 29, 1994
- Help on PGN/ EPD-Format and its implementation wanted by Rudolf Posch, rgcc, November 05, 1996
2000 ...
- Replacing PGN with XML? by Thorsten Greiner, CCC, May 29, 2000 [2]
- File name extensions by Leen Ammeraal, CCC, November 14, 2000
- PGN update and revisions by Steven Edwards, rgcc, May 21, 2002
- PGN Cleaning utility by Dan Wulff, CCC, February 09, 2003
- Ten years later: revising EPD/FEN/PGN by Steven Edwards, CCC, September 09, 2003
- Parsing enormous.pgn by Tor Alexander Lattimore, CCC, April 08, 2005
- From pgn to MySQL? by Fred Hamilton, CCC, June 04, 2009 » jose
2010 ...
- SAN Move Disambiguation -- looking for test positition by humble programmer, CCC, April 12, 2010 » SAN
- PGN Viewer (Web Browser Plugin) by Ted Summers, CCC, March 07, 2011
- Request: PGN reader implementation by Tim Chan, CCC, March 01, 2011
- Programmer bug hunt challenge by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 04, 2007 » En passant
- PGN Parser Interface in C by Mathieu Pagé, CCC, August 05, 2011
- Merge by Carlos Pesce, CCC, October 28, 2011
- StripPgn update + ValidatePgn utility by Dragan Zdravkovic, CCC, October 11, 2012
- Tool to recreate PGN from winboard.debug? by Sven Schüle, CCC, January 01, 2013 » WinBoard
- PGN to FEN (with Evaluation)? by Steve Maughan, CCC, December 28, 2014 » Forsyth-Edwards Notation, Python
2015 ...
- Move Number Indication in PGN Export Format by Thomas Petzke, CCC, January 12, 2015
- A Computer Chess Analysis Interchange Format by Dick Lipton and Ken Regan, Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP, January 20, 2015
- Looking for PGN file tools by Mark Lefler, CCC, September 04, 2015 » PGN Utilities
- Why is there a PGN SetUp tag? by Niklas Fiekas, CCC, November 15, 2015
2016
- Tool for truncate pgn files by Carlos Pesce, CCC, March 03, 2016
- Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, October 15, 2016 » Chess Artist
- A PGN parser by Marco Costalba, CCC, October 23, 2016 » Python
- Scoutfish: powerful chess query tool by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 11, 2016 » Databases, Scoutfish
2017
- MATCH sanity by Ed Schroder, CCC, May 03, 2017
- how to create a labeled epd from pgn? by Erin Dame, CCC, December 02, 2017 » Texel's Tuning Method, EPD
2018
- MillionBase 2017 by Ed Schroder, CCC, January 05, 2018 » PGN Collections
- PGN score annotation tags wv and bv by Dann Corbit, CCC, January 10, 2018
- Request PGNsplit by Carlos Pesce, CCC, July 26, 2018
2019
- PGN standard for comments by Mike Adams, CCC, April 12, 2019
- PGN standard, its improvement and standardization by Oleg Smirnov, CCC, October 06, 2019
- Re: PGN standard, its improvement and standardization by Robert Hyatt, CCC, October 07, 2019
- Re: PGN standard, its improvement and standardization by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, October 08, 2019
2020 ...
- PGN standard by lucasart, CCC, May 21, 2020
- Re: PGN standard by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 22, 2020 [3]
- abk to pgn tool by Fauzi, FishCooking, September 14, 2020 » ABK
- New PGN Tag: VariantFamily by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, November 03, 2020 » Chess Variants
2021
- JGN: A PGN Replacement by Dominik Klein, CCC, November 09, 2021 [4]
- PGN for dummies by Fulvio, CCC, November 11, 2021
2022
- handling huge pgn databases by Jonathan Cremers, CCC, January 31, 2022 » Databases
External Links
PGN
- Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide by Steven Edwards
- GitHub - fsmosca/PGN-Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide by Ferdinand Mosca [5]
- Portable Game Notation from Wikipedia
- Chess notation from Wikipedia
PGN Utilities
- Lyapko George's WinBoard related page (outdated) by George Lyapko » WinBoard [6]
- 40H Chess Tools and Utilities by Norm Pollock » Extended Position Description [7] [8] [9]
- Utilities - Nebula Chess by Dragan Zdravkovic
Open Source Utilities
- pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games by David J. Barnes » pgn-extract
- SAN Kit: Implemented Standards for Chess Move Notation by Steven Edwards
- GitHub - freeeve/pgn: a PGN (Portable Game Notation) chess game parser for golang by Eve Freeman
- GitHub - ebemunk/pgnstats: parses PGN files and extracts statistics for chess games by Buğra Fırat » Match Statistics
- GitHub - ebemunk/chess-dataviz: chess visualization library written for d3.js by Buğra Fırat » Match Statistics
- Perl by Hugh S. Myers
- Chess-PGN-EPD-0.31 by Hugh S. Myers, CPAN, August 30, 2012
- Chess-PGN-Extract-0.02 by Mitsuhiro Nakamura, CPAN, November 07, 2014
- Chess Game Analyzer by Ferdinand Mosca
- Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca
- Package chess by Hugh S. Myers [10]
- python-chess · GitHub by Niklas Fiekas » python-chess
PGN Collections
- Downloads | Games from CSVN
References
- ↑ SAN Kit: Implemented Standards for Chess Move Notation by Steven Edwards
- ↑ XML from Wikipedia
- ↑ GitHub - fsmosca/PGN-Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide by Ferdinand Mosca
- ↑ JSON from Wikipedia
- ↑ Re: PGN standard by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 22, 2020
- ↑ Tool to recreate PGN from winboard.debug? by Sven Schüle, CCC, January 01, 2013
- ↑ An important message to users of 40H utility tools by Norm Pollock, CCC, December 13, 2015
- ↑ Re: 40H chess downloads has moved by Norm Pollock, CCC, March 12, 2016
- ↑ Moved "40H" tools/utilities to a new URL by Norm Pollock, CCC, December 21, 2016
- ↑ chess.py.txt
