🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,

> GNU Chess produces moves in standard algebraic notation (SAN).
> 
> This is the most widely used format for representation of chess moves,
> it may not be the most easily machineable format, but that isn't the
> only criteria for selecting a format, otherwise it would probably be in
> binary.
> 
> I'd strongly suggest you consider working with SAN, if you need to
> handle chess moves in software.
> 
> SAN is documented in the PGN specification. There is a rather dated SAN
> toolkit for parsing SAN in C, many major programming and scripting
> languages now have SAN parsing modules (Perl, Python etc).

Thanks.

> I'm not sure what alternative you are suggesting, but "from square, and
> to square" doesn't handle (under)promotions very well. LAN is very
> bulky, and I don't think we'll be implementing obselete standards for
> output.

I never suggested I'd put anything back into gnuchess, so no worries. I 
understand the output quite well, it's just that I was wondering if any 
option was available to force the output to contain all the information at 
all times, eg. Nb1c3X, where the X (or any other character), represents the 
fact no promotion was made.

Thanks for the info!
Regards,
Andy

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