C/CIF is an interchange format for chess applications. This format is supporting all features of a chess application - PGN does not provide this - and can be used to transfer chess archives without any loss via an application independent format.
C/CIF is supporting two formats: the binary format CCIF, and the human readable format CIF (in XML).
Features
- Lossless transfer of chess archives
- Fits to the requirements of modern chess databases
- Compact binary format and text format (XML)
- Features cloud databases
- Supports (nearly) any chess variant
- Contains information section
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)Follow C/CIF
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This project addresses some glaring issues in .PGN files. Today's chess analysts need tools that go far beyond what the commercial industry felt it could deliver by 2015.