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I just wanted to compliment you on the very nice improvements you have made to the French Defence article. Welcome to Wikipedia, and keep up the good work! Neilc 20:58, 16 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I noticed you removed the "." from the moves on the French Defence. I'm not overly possessive of them, but they are standard -- and typical throughout the chess articles here and elsewhere. Please consider reverting your changes. Thanks -- and good work. ThreeE 01:47, 23 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I've removed the periods because the standard used in printed chess material is to omit them (see books published by Everyman, Gambit, Batsford, Olms, etc.). Informant uses both a period and a space (excessive imo) and I think PGN does so as well. I personally prefer omitting them because I think the moves look "cleaner" that way. In any case, I omitted the periods from the moves in the rest of the article and it's best to keep things consistent. There should be an open discussion on this issue - where should we start it? Walter Chan 16:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)Reply