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This page contains two sections:
1) A list of Empires during the age of modern chess
2) Empires in PGN data
3) Empire Codes

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A list of Empires during the age of modern chess

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Empires in PGN data

If an empire, or the controlling government, is deemed necessary, the simplest method is to include the empire after the country code (see Game Collection: Country Codes for a list). This approach has the benefit of placing the city in the proper country and offering up information regarding the governing body. Examples:

<Site "Breslau POL (Prussian Empire)">
<Site "Breslau POL (German Empire)">
<Site "Warsaw POL (Russian Empire)>
<Site "Szekesfehervar HUN (Austro-Hungarian Empire)">
<Site "Daugavpils LAT (Soviet Union)">

When following the above format the controlling country of an empire does not need to specify that it is part of it's own empire, i.e. <Berlin GER> can be used over <Berlin GER (German Empire)>, <Moscow RUS> can be used over <Moscow RUS (Russian Empire)>, etc., and in the case of the British Empire the countries of England, Scotland, and Wales, can be presented without adding the empire data, i.e. <Glasgow SCO> instead of <Glasgow SCO (British Empire)>.

Empire Codes

The following empires have been given country codes and are used by some members in lieu of a country code:

Code Empire ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— AUH Austro-Hungarian Empire RUE Russian Empire ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Following the above model, User: cameosis and User: jnpope propose the following additional 3-letter codes for additional empires:

Code Empire ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— GBR British Empire ECF French Empire DKB Danish Empire GGR Greater German Reich (Nazi Germany) ICP Portuguese Empire IES Spanish Empire NKR Dutch Empire OTO Ottoman Empire URS Soviet Union USE U.S. Empire ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

An alternate proposal would be to follow the IOC model, i.e. RU1 for the Russian Empire, to prevent any possible future naming collision with Game Collection: Country Codes. This proposal is to use the ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code and tack a number to the end for those that have a suitable ISO entry and then use the XA through XZ codes for those empires that don't have a corresponding 2-letter country code (i.e. Ottoman Empire, Prussian Empire, etc.):

Code Empire ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— US1 American Empire UK1 British Empire FR1 French Empire DK1 Danish Empire NL1 Dutch Empire DE1 German Empire PT1 Portuguese Empire RU1 Russian Empire ES1 Spanish Empire SU1 Soviet Union SE1 Swedish Empire ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

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