Say "0-1 {White Resigns} is redundant!
0-1 means White resigns
1-0 means Black resigns
We have a symbol for it already!
And the hits just keep on coming! You know ... it's very difficult to help people on this site...
:-P
I think you need to go back and read through the whole thread. If you only say 0-1 or 1-0 then how do you know if one side resigned, or if the game ended because time ran out?
You don't!
However even if my suggestion was redundant - which is isn't - then people still wanted to know, and I was simply responding to various suggestions and queries by pointing out that I wanted to know how to do it too - which is how I ended up here - and that in my quest I discovered that some PGN editors won't allow you to enter non PGN symbols or text.
As such I have explained, several times now, in quite a lot of detail, that the best way you can do it is with a comment, which you can do in PGN with either curly brackets or a semicolon. This is also good to know because you can enter comments anywhere in the game. An example being a game I was playing the other day with a friend of mine, who made a really, REALLY stupid move which gave me his Queen for free. He did it because he was very stoned, and since I don't get high myself, I let him take the move back, because I would rather play him in his best frame of mind - and lose - than win because he played a stupid move while he was wasted. You know? Especially when considering how difficult and close the game had been up until then. That being the case, my new found knowledge enabled me to write:
24. Ne6 Kf7 {Black initially played Nd4 but White allowed a take-back to keep the game interesting}
So ... knowing how to write comments is useful for showing that the game was Resigned, or Lost on Time, that one player was very wasted, or whatever it is you might want to say, such as:
{Move delayed whilst writing yet another comment in the thread concerning how to indicate Resignation in PGN)
;-D
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Actually, you do. Typically, you see one of 3 things on scores sheets. IF the last move before the 1-0 or 0-1 has a hash symbol, #, it was mate. 1-0 (Time) or 0-1 (Time) is a loss on time. No # and no (Time), resignation is assumed.
Aha! I see the problem. We're not talking about Score Sheets, where talking about PGN; the format which computers use to output a game, and enable you to load a game for analysis etc. Of course you can write whatever you like on a Score Sheet, but you cannot write anything you like in PGN. The oringal comment concerned loading games in PGN format and I have been explaining what works and what doesn't. I won't repeat it all again, because it's still there for anyone who's intersted...
Of course since mate has a symbol, nothing would need to follow 0-1. It would be consistent to give stalemate a symbol too and then nothing would follow 1/2-1/2.