crossnamepattern = full | last | short | firstlast | initlast
default: full

The crossnamepattern command is used to select the formatting of the player names for the crosstable.

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