Re: [pbmserv-dev] sgf files

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:46:27PM -0400, David J Bush wrote:
> ...
> 
> |You might want to add a game ID(entifier) [aka the board number] to 
> |go along with the PC, PB and PW entries you have to show which board 
> |you're looking at (yes, I know it's in the Subject, but the SGF viewer
> |doesn't see the subject).
> |  
> |Good point.  Will do.
> 
> Do you intend to define a new property "ID"? That would not be recognized
> by SGF-reading Go game display programs, which presumably is the
> reason why you are going to all this trouble to create sgf files in
> the first place.

ID exists in FF[3]

	http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ff1_3/ff3.html

> There already is the property GN. Here's the description from the
> SGF website:
> 
> Property: GN
> Propvalue: simpletext
> Propertytype: game-info
> Function: Provides a name for the game. The name is used to
>   easily find games within a collection.
>   The name should therefore contain some helpful information
>   for identifying the game. 'GameName' could also be used
>   as the file-name, if a collection is split into
>   single files.
> Related: GC, EV, DT, PC, RO, ID

But yes.   GN is probably a better property

> You could adopt a convention that the SGF files created here must use GN
> with a specific format including the game number. That should not result
> in any problems with reading the sgf file later.
> 
> 
> BTW is Gomoku a parent of Twixt in the C++ heirarchy?

Yeah.   twixt is a support SGF format (GM[21])

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