Editing Portable Game Notation (section)

==== Seven Tag Roster ====
PGN data for archival storage is required to provide seven tag pairs – together known as the "''Seven Tag Roster''". In export format, these tag pairs must appear before any other tag pairs and in this order:

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| Event|Name of the tournament or match event.

| Site|Location of the event. This is in {{code|City, Region COUNTRY}} format, where COUNTRY is the three-letter [[List of IOC country codes|International Olympic Committee code]] for the country. An example is {{code|New York City, NY USA}}.{{pb}}Although not part of the specification, some [[online chess|online chess platforms]] will include a URL or website as the site value.<ref>For example, the PGN generated by [[lichess]] for the online match between grandmasters [https://lichess.org/GmglqIQz Pavel Smirnov and Andrew Tang (2020)] lists a URL in the site field.</ref>

| Date|Starting date of the game, in {{code|YYYY.MM.DD}} form. {{code|??}} is used for unknown values.

| Round|Playing round ordinal of the game within the event.

| White|Player of the white pieces, in {{code|Lastname, Firstname}} format.

| Black|Player of the black pieces, same format as White.

| Result|Result of the game. It is recorded as White score, dash, then Black score, or {{code|*}} (other, e.g., the game is ongoing).
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