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Following is a .pgn 'string' which I would like to "decode" for my own understanding. In particular, does anyone know where this event was played? I speculate that 'FRM' could refer to,say, "FIDE Rapid Masters", 'chT' might mean championship Tournament/Tourney, and '18th' could refer to the "edition' of the event,e.g. the 18th time they conducted this sort of tournament. I noticed that the time control is not indicated,e.g. [TimeControl "-"]. Is this because it was a rapid time controlled event and the time control is normally not included in such circumstances? For those who have both some expertise in chess and knowledge of .pgn formatting, I would be most grateful for your input. Thank you for your help!

[Event "FRM-chT 18th"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/cMhL7kM3"]
[Date "2009.08.11"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Black "Chatalbashev, Boris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2717"]
[BlackElo "2548"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "-"]
[ECO "A43"]
[Opening "Benoni Defense: Benoni Gambit Accepted"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

Following is a .pgn 'string' which I would like to "decode" for my own understanding. In particular, does anyone know where this event was played? I speculate that 'FRM' could refer to,say, "FIDE Rapid Masters", 'chT' might mean championship Tournament/Tourney, and '18th' could refer to the "edition' of the event,e.g. the 18th time they conducted this sort of tournament. I noticed that the time control is not indicated,e.g. [TimeControl "-"]. Is this because it was a rapid time controlled event and the time control is normally not included in such circumstances? For those who have both some expertise in chess and knowledge of .pgn formatting, I would be most grateful for your input. Thank you for your help! [Event "FRM-chT 18th"] [Site "https://lichess.org/cMhL7kM3"] [Date "2009.08.11"] [Round "2"] [White "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"] [Black "Chatalbashev, Boris"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2717"] [BlackElo "2548"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "-"] [ECO "A43"] [Opening "Benoni Defense: Benoni Gambit Accepted"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "lichess.org"]

BurraAbhishek

#2

For the basics of PGN, I find this article and the following guide (not running https) reliable at the time of posting this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation
http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.htm

I think FRM may refer to FIDE Rapid Masters and chT may refer to Championship Tournament. But I'm really not sure about what they mean.

As for time control, "-" means that there was no time control in use at that time.

References: see above

For the basics of PGN, I find this article and the following guide (not running https) reliable at the time of posting this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Game_Notation http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.htm I think FRM may refer to FIDE Rapid Masters and chT may refer to Championship Tournament. But I'm really not sure about what they mean. As for time control, "-" means that there was no time control in use at that time. References: see above

DerekMcGill

#3

The game was played OTB in a team tournament in Struga which is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of North Macedonia.