dbnamepattern = full | last | short | firstlast | initlast default: full The dbnamepattern command is used to select the formatting of the player names for the Html SELECT drop down menu placed under the chessboard in a number of the htmltype pages. Here is an example using: dbnamepattern = initlast The player's names are taken from the player Tags, White and Black, in each game of the PGN file. PGN expects these names to appear in the same format as they would appear in a telephone directory. That is, last name, followed by a comma, followed by the rest of the name. Bobby Fischer's name would appear in a PGN file as: Fischer, Robert J. Using Fischer's name as a model, the various name 'patterns' produce these results:
full | Fischer, Robert J.
last | Fischer
short | Fischer, R.
firstlast | Robert J. Fischer
initlast | R. Fischer
Notice that full corresponds exactly to the format used by PGN. For more information on PGN see the section: Portable Game Notation