PART 2 • Printing and exporting games and positions
• While an annotated PGN file may contain notations and characters which a human viewer may have trouble interpreting( for example, analysis symbols are provided as alphanumeric codes), in general a human player should be able to read the header information and follow the moves. That makes the“ Copy” command a really easy way to e-mail games to a friend. You ' d click“ Copy PGN” in Chess King, open an new e-mail, and hit CTRL-V on your keyboard to paste the PGN notation into the body of the e-mail.
• Just as PGN is a standard for game notation, EPD( or Extended Position Description) format is just a shorthand notation for a chess position. Here ' s what the EPD format description looks like for the positions following the move 1. e4:
rnbqkbnr / pppppppp / 8 / 8 / 4P3 / 8 / PPPP1PPP / RNBQKBNR b KQkq-
• The notation breaks the position down into eight sets of characters( separated by slashes) which correspond to the eight ranks of a chessboard( starting with Black ' s first rank and working down the board to White ' s first rank). Black ' s chessmen are denoted by lower case characters while White ' s are designated by capital letters. Numbers show empty squares, and the side to move is also designated. Many chess programs are capable of reading EPD notation; you could e-mail a friend the EPD characters( using the Copy command to send the position to the Clipboard, then paste it into an e-mail by typing CTRL-V), send the e-mail to a friend, and he or she could highlight the EPD string, hit CTRL-C to copy it to their Clipboard, then CTRL-V to paste it into their favorite chess program.
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