It is time to stop the aimless proliferation of formats for xiangqi game-scores. The ideal is to achieve the establishment of one dominant format just like the pgn format in chess instead of the frigtening diversity of formats for XQ at present.
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The screenshot shows the formats which the English version of the software XieXieMaster 2.5 are compatible with. Discounting the ones specific to XieXie Master, there are 8 formats ! If you find any other formats besides these, please share it with us.
For WinBoard /XBoard I so far uses the policy to stick to a single format for saving, which is PGN (with SAN move notation). OTOH, for reading, it should preferably be able to load anything that remotely looks like a collection of moves. So that you can, say, copy-paste a game given as a table on a HTML page into WinBoard without any problems.
Currently WinBoard cannot parse moves in AXF format, but I am working on that.
1. Have you ever downloaded a Xiangqi game-score from a xiangqi website and then replayed it successfully on your XQ software ?
2. In what format is the game score ?
3. What is the name of your XQ software ?