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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].

See also

• Algebraic Chess Notation
  SAN
• Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca
• Chess Query Language (CQL)
• Extended Position Description (EPD)
• Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN)
• Game Notation
• python-chess

Forum Posts

1990 ...

• PGN Standard - General Discussion - Compuserv Thread by Christopher A. Morgan, rgc, December 31, 1993
• PGN and other related Issues. POINTS ARISING by Mark Crowther, rgc, July 29, 1994

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
• 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
• 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
• 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 ^[3]
• 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
• 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

• 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

External Links

PGN

• Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide by Steven Edwards
• Portable Game Notation from Wikipedia
• Chess notation from Wikipedia
  Algebraic chess notation
  Descriptive chess notation
  Chess symbols in Unicode

PGN Utilities

• Lyapko George's WinBoard related page (outdated) by George Lyapko » WinBoard ^[4]
• 40H Chess Tools and Utilities by Norm Pollock » Extended Position Description ^{[5] [6] [7]}
• Utilities - Nebula Chess by Dragan Zdravkovic

Open Source Utilities

C

• pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games by David J. Barnes
• SAN Kit: Implemented Standards for Chess Move Notation by Steven Edwards

Go

• 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

Java

• PGN/EPD Chess Utility Suites & 40H Java Class Files by Norman Pollock

JavaScript

• GitHub - ebemunk/chess-dataviz: chess visualization library written for d3.js by Buğra Fırat » Match Statistics

Perl

• 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

Python

• Chess Game Analyzer by Ferdinand Mosca
• Chess Artist by Ferdinand Mosca
• Package chess by Hugh S. Myers ^[8]
• python-chess · GitHub by Niklas Fiekas » python-chess

PGN Collections

• Downloads | Games from CSVN
• Important PGN collections by Ed Schöder
• PGN Colections - MillionBase 2017 by Ed Schröder

References

1. ^ SAN Kit: Implemented Standards for Chess Move Notation by Steven Edwards
2. ^ XML from Wikipedia
3. ^ Lyapko George's WinBoard related page (outdated) by George Lyapko
4. ^ Tool to recreate PGN from winboard.debug? by Sven Schüle, CCC, January 01, 2013
5. ^ An important message to users of 40H utility tools by Norm Pollock, CCC, December 13, 2015
6. ^ Re: 40H chess downloads has moved by Norm Pollock, CCC, March 12, 2016
7. ^ Moved "40H" tools/utilities to a new URL by Norm Pollock, CCC, December 21, 2016
8. ^ chess.py.txt

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