Themed PGN

Russ, I tried to copy the PGN of a game I played in the Bird Tournament (fixed position), but, of course, it didn't work!

You think this can be fixed?

Olav

what do you mean? I had a look at Game 289087 and at it's pgn and it's fine (as far as you can call it fine 😉 )
White's first move is d4...
th

PS: perhaps one day we'll have perfect pgn with a FEN tag for alternative starting positions, read more under: http://www.yacdb.com/pgn/pgn_0909.htm#SEC09.7.1

perhaps anyone knows anything about a standart time notation in pgn files (as comments)?
[this could help Russ 😉 😀 🙂 ]
th

Dear Russ,
could you give us in the archive the option "send email of these games" with checkboxes for all games?
I'd appreciate this very much 😀
th

Originally posted by thire
what do you mean? I had a look at Game 289087 and at it's pgn and it's fine (as far as you can call it fine 😉 )
White's first move is d4...
th

PS: perhaps one day we'll have perfect pgn with a FEN tag for alternative starting ...[text shortened]... , read more under: http://www.yacdb.com/pgn/pgn_0909.htm#SEC09.7.1

There's a document at http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz84.pdf that can help to understand PGN. But for the game pointed, there's a missing tag called "FEN", used when the game doesn't starts from the standard position (themed game or FisherRandom).

Originally posted by LivingLegend
No, it's not fine at all, white's first move was 1.f5, but it isn't shown in the PGN because the pawn was already there when the game was started!

BTW, thanks for letting the world know I'm losing to a 1300 player! 😉

Olav