Collects information about pgn (portable game notation), and explains typical usage of it.
PGN is a pretty old specification, and never changed afterwards. There are some discussions going on, so this repository shall collect information about it, and provide a better way to access it.
It will not implement the specification, there are already many implementations available.
I got the idea to start with this when reading about fsmoscas PGN-Standard repository. The goal here is slighly different, he tries to change the standard.
So what should be done here:
- Have a one stop collection of information available about PGN.
- Provide a better readable version (similar to the one provided by Saremba in his colophon) that may then be commented by just using Git and markdown, without any complex tooling around it. The original version is provided as well unchanged.
- Have additional documents linked to it, as well as commented sections, that may lead to the wish to expand or change the specification.
- PGN Specification Supplement Addition to PGN done ~8 years later, that adds structured comments for graphical symbols, timing, ...
- Annotated Export Format Collection of relevant parts of the spec, annotated.
Here is a collection of resources not really related to PGN, but to chess:
- Chess Terms in English/German/Russian. Created a Gist for that, because I needed those terms on one page, and will use them in my lectures (for childs in a chess working group)