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Opening book format proposal - Computer content

Posted By: Frank Berger
Date: Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:30 p.m.

In Response To: Opening book format proposal - Computer content (eXtreme Gammon)

Hi Xavier,

great idea. I personally are dedicated to standards and portability for +20 years so I will happily support this format.

Some things that come up in my mind:

ROGames : Dword; why use DWord instead of integer? 2,100,000,000 seems sufficient to me :) or do I overlook something?

Random stuff. Shouldn't be one indicator added which RNG was used. Gnu and BGB support different RNG (I'm to lazy to check this for XG (must boot windows :) and no idea about Snowie) but I think this makes sense. 0=platform default 1=Mersenne 2=random.org 3=...

Regarded to the format: I understand the point of Ian, Marty and Keith especially human readability and handling Endianess is an issue (but easily solvable. For pos-files you have to solve it on e.g Power-Macs or SPARC anyway).

Personally I like XML not to well because of it's verbosity and sometimes excessive use in the IT, so I would prefer JSON (simple and fast) if an plain text format should be used but I can live with anything, I would only opt against more "advanced" XML stuff like XML-Schema and the like.

Again: Great idea.

ciao Frank

Messages In This Thread

• Opening book format proposal - Computer content
  eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 4:19 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:29 a.m.
    • Xg2 and this file format
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 7:10 a.m.
  • Looking at the future
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:55 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    KenB -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 12:49 p.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Ian Shaw -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 3:00 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Marty Storer -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 3:17 p.m.
      • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
        Tom Keith -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 5:45 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Rich Munitz -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 9:18 p.m.
      • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
        Frank Berger -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 9:52 p.m.
        • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
          Rich Munitz -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:50 p.m.
          • obsolescence
            Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 12:50 a.m.
            • obsolescence
              Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 1:19 a.m.
              • obsolescence
                Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 1:59 a.m.
                • Did you know?
                  KenB -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 2:54 a.m.
            • obsolescence
              Frank Berger -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 10:09 p.m.
            • obsolescence
              Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 10:52 p.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    Frank Berger -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
    • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
      Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:27 p.m.
  • "Opening Book" format may be too specific
    Michael Petch -- Monday, 31 January 2011, at 10:47 p.m.
  • Playing with tagged formats
    Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 1 February 2011, at 4:28 p.m.
    • Playing with tagged formats
      Ian Shaw -- Wednesday, 2 February 2011, at 9:28 a.m.
  • Opening book format proposal - Computer content
    storm -- Friday, 4 February 2011, at 9:12 p.m.