Re: [pbmserv-dev] sgf files

["David J Bush" <twixt@cstone.net>]

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|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.

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

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?

David