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  2. Portable Game Notation - Wikipedia

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    Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a standard plain text format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.

  3. Chess notation - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive chess notation was used in English- and Spanish-language literature until the late 20th century, but is now obsolescent. Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a text file format based on English algebraic notation which can be processed by most chess software. Other notation systems include ICCF numeric notation, used for international ...

  4. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a text-based file format for storing chess games, which uses standard English algebraic notation and a small amount of markup. [11] PGN can be processed by almost all chess software, as well as being easily readable by humans. For example, the Game of the Century could be represented as follows in PGN:

  5. Portable Draughts Notation - Wikipedia

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    Portable Draughts Notation (.PDN) is the standard computer-processable format for recording draughts games. This format is derived from Portable Game Notation , which is the standard chess format. PDN files are text files which must contain Tag Pairs and Movetext for each game.

  6. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Portable Game Notation (PGN) is a text-based file format for recording chess games, based on short form English algebraic notation with a small amount of markup. PGN files (suffix .pgn) can be processed by most chess software, as well as being easily readable by humans.

  7. ICCF numeric notation - Wikipedia

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    ICCF numeric notation is the official chess notation system of the International Correspondence Chess Federation. The system was devised for use in international correspondence chess to avoid the potential confusion of using algebraic notation , as the chess pieces have different abbreviations depending on language.

  8. Descriptive notation - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language. Its distinctive features are that it refers to files by the piece that occupies the back rank square in the starting position and that it describes each square two ways depending on whether it is from White or Black's point of view.

  9. Universal Chess Interface - Wikipedia

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    The UCI has been modified to play some chess variants. Some of these are: [5] Universal Shogi Interface (USI), a dialect for shogi; [6] Universal Chinese Chess Interface (UCCI), a dialect for xiangqi. [7] Each of these protocols may also define variants of Portable Game Notation (PGN) and Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN). The XBoard CECP is ...