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Standard: Portable Game Notation Specification and Implementation Guide Revised: 1994.03.12 Authors: Interested readers of the Internet newsgroup rec.games.chess Coordinator: Steven J. Edwards (send comments to [email protected]) 0: Preface From the Tower of Babel story: If now, while they are one people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do this, nothing will later […]

Section 16.1 from Portable Game Notation. FEN is “Forsyth-Edwards Notation”; it is a standard for describing chess positions using the ASCII character set. A single FEN record uses one text line of variable length composed of six data fields. The first four fields of the FEN specification are the same as the first four fields of […]

Section 16.2 from Portable Game Notation. EPD is “Extended Position Description”; it is a standard for describing chess positions along with an extended set of structured attribute values using the ASCII character set. It is intended for data and command interchange among chessplaying programs. It is also intended for the representation of portable opening library repositories. […]