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Event: Tournament Name
Site: New York City, NY USA (3 letter country code)
Date: 2024.01.01
Round: 1
White: Lastname, Firstname
Black: Lastname, Firstname
Result: 1-0 (or * for ongoing)
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The PGN standard is not that standard :) and chess software adapted by disregarding such recommendations. PGNs were designed as immutable paper notations for played OTB games, but nowadays they are used more in analyses, puzzles and that stuff. The mandatory tags are pointless for many of these scenarios. Even for online games most of those tags are meaningless.
The PGN format is quite specific for its mandatory 7 tags (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation#Seven_Tag_Roster). I suggest having placeholder text to guide users when filling out the tags, for convenience:
Event: Tournament Name
Site: New York City, NY USA (3 letter country code)
Date: 2024.01.01
Round: 1
White: Lastname, Firstname
Black: Lastname, Firstname
Result: 1-0 (or * for ongoing)
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: