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Description
Hi!
I am working with a data source that explicitly distinguishes between two types of comments for a specific move:
- Before the move (e.g., context or instructions given before the move is made).
- After the move (e.g., analysis or annotation of the move itself).
Currently, chess.pgn.GameNode seems to only support a single comment attribute.
If I have a sequence like:
{Comment Before} 1. e4 {Comment After}
I am forced to append {Comment Before} to the parent.comment (the previous node) and {Comment After} to the current node.comment. While this produces valid PGN text, it causes semantic issues in the object model:
- If I iterate through the game nodes later, the "Comment Before" is logically attached to the previous move, not the current one.
- It becomes difficult to parse the PGN back and separate which part of the text was intended as a "pre-move" note vs a "post-move" annotation.
Feature Request:
Would it be possible to introduce a mechanism to store pre-move comments separately?
For example, adding a pre_comment attribute to GameNode or ensuring that the Visitor can distinguish between comments appearing before the move token/SAN and comments appearing after it.
This would greatly help in preserving the structure of the original data.
Thanks for the great library!