🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Oct 7, 2008 06:19 PM EDT:
Rich, what you're proposing as a standard is very different from how Game
Courier already operates. Game Courier's movement notation is programming
code with recognition of simple algebraic notation built into it. It is
designed as a series of sequential operations, so that it works with just
about any Chess variant. It would not work with the compact way you want
to express multiple operations. For movement, Game Courier uses -, not :.
This use is adopted from algebraic notation, though it extends the use of
- for capturing moves. For multiple operations in the same move, it uses
the ; operator, which is commonly used to end a line of code in many
programming languages, including GAME Code. I would not recommend the use
of & for anything you want to pass to a form through an URL, because HTML
uses the & to separate form variable assignments from one another.