Editing Portable Game Notation (section)

{{short description|Computer format for recording chess games}}
{{Infobox file format
| name =
| logo =
| icon =
| iconcaption =
| screenshot =
| caption =
| extension = .pgn
| mime = application/vnd.chess-pgn
| type code =
| uniform type =
| conforms to =
| magic =
| owner = [[Steven J. Edwards]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1993}} <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|mm|dd|df=yes/no}} -->
| latest release version =
| latest release date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|mm|dd|df=yes/no}} -->
| genre = [[Chess]] game record
| container for =
| contained by =
| extended from =
| extended to =
| standard =
| free =
| url =
}}
'''Portable Game Notation''' (PGN) is a standard [[plain text]] format for recording [[chess]] games (both the moves and related [[data]]), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software.
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