Extended Position Description (EPD) is a standard for describing

chess games Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dis ...

and chess positions and an extended set of structured attribute values using the

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character set. It extends the

Forsyth–Edwards Notation Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game. The purpose of FEN is to provide all the necessary information to restart a game from a particular position. FEN is based on a sys ...

(FEN) except for the halfmove clock and full move number which are not mandatory, but implemented as ''operations'' hmvc and fmvn. It is intended for data and command interchange among chessplaying computer programs. It is also intended to represent portable opening library repositories.http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt

External links

* http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt * https://github.com/fsmosca/PGN-Standard * https://www.chessprogramming.org/Extended_Position_Description

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