NAME

    Chess::PGN::EPD - Perl extension to produce and manipulate EPD text.

SYNOPSIS

    From "Working With Epd Files" by Steve Lopez
    <http://www.chessbaseusa.com/portals/6/tn/Issues_Back/1999_autumn/1999_1031.htm>,

    "There's a lot of chess information available on the Internet in a
    variety of formats. One of these is called EPD (Extended Position
    Description) format; it's just a convenient way to provide a board
    position (rather than a full game) in an ASCII text notation. For
    example, here's what the board position after 1.e4 looks like in EPD
    format:

        rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq e3 0 1

    This was designed as a way for chess players and chess programs to pass
    board positions back and forth for analysis. You'll frequently see
    posts to Usenet chess newsgroups or other message boards containing
    these EPD positions.

    There's a quick, easy way to copy and paste these board descriptions
    into ChessBase or any of our playing programs (Fritz, Hiarcs, Nimzo,
    Junior). Just highlight the EPD line from a post or web page and hit
    CRTL-C on your keyboard. Then open ChessBase, go to the Game menu,
    select "Setup position", and click the button marked "Paste FEN".
    You'll instantly see the position appear on the board in the "Setup
    position" window. Click "OK" and you'll now have an "Enter new game"
    window with the proper board position on it taken from the EPD file.
    You can then save the position into a database just like any other
    game..."

    Chess::PGN::EPD attempts to bring ease and convenience to its users
    programmatically by providing a set of functions that manipulate EPD
    text.

VERSION

    0.34

RECENT CHANGES

      * Fix "119759 Undeclared dependency on Chess::PGN::Moves"

      * Add 00_Dependancies.t as stop to test without Chess::PGN::Moves

      * Add =head1 LICENSE and the text of the license to pod

      * Add a META.json to the distribution

      * List all modules used in the test suite in META.yml build_requires

      * Add all modules contained in this distribution to the META.yml
      field 'provides'

      * Generate README from pod

    See the Changes file for a longer revision history.

REQUIREMENTS

    This distribution requires Perl v5.24.0.

    This distribution requires the following modules:

      * Chess::PGN::Moves (version 0.05)

      * Chess::PGN::Parse (version 0.20)

      * Cpanel::JSON::XS

      * File::ShareDir

      * File::ShareDir::Install (version 0.06)

      * File::Slurper

      * Pod::Coverage::TrustPod

      * Test::Kwalitee (version 1.21)

      * Test::Pod (version 1.41)

      * Test::Pod::Coverage (version 1.08)

INSTALLATION

    Traditional recipe based on Makefile.PL:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

    Note that some distributions will have a Build.PL file instead of or in
    addition to Makefile.PL. In that case use this recipe:

        perl Build.PL
        ./Build
        ./Build test
        ./Build install

AUTHOR

    Hugh S. Myers <hsmyers@gmail.com>

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