Extended Position Description (EPD) is a standard for describing chess games and chess positions and an extended set of structured attribute values using the

ASCII ASCII ( ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable character, printable and 33 control character, control c ...

character set. EPD was developed by John Stanback and

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. Its first implementation is in Stanback's chessplaying program Zarkov. It extends the

Forsyth–Edwards Notation Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard Chess notation, notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game. The purpose of FEN is to provide all the necessary information to restart a game from a particular position. FEN i ...

(FEN) except for the halfmove clock and full move number which are not mandatory, but implemented as ''operations'' hmvc and fmvn. It is intended for data and command interchange among chessplaying computer programs. It is also intended to represent portable opening library repositories.http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt

External links

* http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt * https://github.com/fsmosca/PGN-Standard * https://www.chessprogramming.org/Extended_Position_Description

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