[White "MGounki"] [Black "Malavasi, Christophe"] [Date "2003.04.12"] [Result "1 - 0"] [Event "beta-test game"] { Comment: sample game description There is no standardized game description format yet, but adapting the Chess PGN notation - Portable Game Notation - to Gounki needs seems the best, obvious, way. (We might just name the result "Portable Gounki Notation" ;-) For those interested, see: - Chess PGN specification --> http://pgn.freeservers.com - proposed Gounki syntax --> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rvo/gounki/rules2.html#notations } { Short explanation: game actions (moves or deployments) are noted using the following syntax: [',' ]... where: - is a board square (eg. a1, c2, h8...) or OUT. - is : '-' for a move, 'x' for a capture move, '*' for a deployment. Of these, only '*' is mandatory. Syntactic sugar: the following symbols are only meant to make the notation easier to understand: ',' (dest. location separator), '-' (move separator), 'x' (capture symbol), '+' (clustering suffix symbol for dest. locations). These symbols may be omitted. } { By the way, now you known that comments are enclosed in braces :-) } 1. c1 b1+ a8 b7+ 2. b1 b2+ b8 b7+ 3. b2 * c3 c4 c5 e7 d7+ 4. f1 e2+ d7 * c7+ d6 5. d2 e2+ d6 x c5 6. e2 f3 b7 b5 7. f3 d5 a7 b7 8. a2 b3 g8 f7+ 9. d5 e5 h8 h7+ 10. g1 g2+ c8 d7 11. g2 f2+ d8 d7+ 12. f2 f4 d7 e6 13. f4 * f5 f6 e7 {a splendid move !} f8 e8+ 14. f6 x e6 f7 x e6 15. e5 x e6 e8 x e7 16. e6 * d7 c8 OUT