------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregor wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------- >2. Interchanging data between chess applications. Of course this is > possible only if this format will be widespread accepted. PGN > cannot be used for this purpose, no way to import an exported > game from ChessBase via PGN, PGN doesn't know anything about > multilingual comments and different comment types like > post-comments and pre-comments. Yes, but the problem is exactly this: how do you make your new format a "standard"?