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For those working with gnuchess, some or all of the following may be
of interest, particularly with respect to game data storage and
interchange.

For chess items, use anonymous ftp at ics.onenet.net:

    pub/chess: general chess directory
    pub/chess/PGN: Portable Game Notation directory
    pub/chess/PGN/Standard: ASCII version of the PGN Standard
    pub/chess/PGN/Standard.TOC: Table of Contents for above
    pub/chess/PGN/Events: directory of directories of events by year
    pub/chess/PGN/Players: directory with many PGN games by player
    pub/chess/Tests: directory with many chess program test positions
    pub/chess/Tests/Manifest: description of EPD test files
    pub/chess/TB: endgame tablebases
    pub/chess/TB/README-TB: tablebase decyphering documentation
    pub/chess/TB/tbt.c: ANSI C tablebase test harness
    pub/chess/PGN/Tools: PGN tools and utilities directory
    pub/chess/Unix/SAN.tar.gz: Standard Algebraic Notation source kit

I humbly suggest that PGN be adopted as the ASCII import/export format
for gnuchess.  This will help quite a few users who've aquired large
and inexpensive quantities of game data distributed using PGN.

I also encourage the integration of the tablebase effort results.
This will allow gnuchess to play omnisciently when certina endgames
are encountered.  Why bother with K+P vs. K special case estimating
routines when the exact answer can be had via table look-up?

Furthermore, I recommend that the EPD format be supported.  This will
enable gnuchess to run EPD processing verbs (see pub/chess/PGN/EPD-VP)
on the established benchmark suite in a standard fashion.  Also, EPD
data can be exchanged with certain commercial position databases as
well as analysis programs.

-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)