I think the problem with XML-izing Chess notation
is that you already have a universally accepted
standard based on the standart chess notation that
all chess player's are already facile with. There
is no need to exchange information between disparate standards which is what XML excels at
since this one is rampant. Also this standard
which uses numerals and letters in sequence to
identify the chess board grid would be readable
through a computer program to a machine. Finally
even though the PNG is unreadable to the average
human it is eminently readable to practitioners of
the game of games some of whom have developed a
machine-like facility with this script to the point of being able to play through whole games
mentally with nothing but the bare script in front
of them! PNG comes from "algebraic notation" which replaced the ethnocentric "English Notation"
around the seventies and many of us have stacks of
game collections in this script laying around which is as entrenched in the chess world by now as QWERTY is in the secretarial world. |
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