Please note that the current database download is password protected and contains duplicate games (waste of bandwidth), I will soon upload a new updated version which will be publicaly available. Create opening books for specific opening or variation and use chess engine to play that specific opening. Search for games played in chess history.ĥ.
Create high quality opening books for use by chess enginesĤ. Study openings, mid games and endgames.ģ. Study games played by chess masters last 500 years.Ģ. Q: Why on the earth would anyone need a chess games database?Ī: You can use database to do following things:ġ. If you’re a chess novice you might ask your self:
I’m still not sure how could all this work, so if you’re interested please either give a reply here or join discussion forum on my project page to share your ideas on how to proceed with this project. The plan is to make the database available to everyone and more important the more people there are willing to contribute the larger database we will have, for FREE! Please note that this project is currently still in progress and I’m seeking for help from other chess players to collect more games and to help maintain this database!
I’ve been using Scid vs PC program to manage database and therefore the database is in scid format, meaning you can download it and do with it what ever you want, such as importing more games. I also created a project page on sourceforge to share my super-duper-jambo database with other chess players around the globe for FREE! So far this number reduced to some 20 Million games and still reducing… I managed to collect over 30 Million games so far by downloading other people databases and PGN files from various websites, merged them all into one big database and started removing duplicate games. So I started collecting OTB games played by humans (not engines, not correspondence etc.) starting from year cca 1500 up until now, that is OTB games for last 500+ years.
So I come up with an idea to create my own FREE largest database of games that will beat all other databases found on internet! However these commercial solutions cost money, and that’s a big problem for people who simply can’t or are not willing to pay, not only that but some websites don’t even sell their databases, but instead offer online query only, therefore you have no control. Most of these free databases are not exceeding more than 3 Million games, which is of course a lot, but I wanted larger one, and looked up for commercial solutions, and found some interesting sites offering chess databases of various sizes, such as 5 Million games or even 10 Million or more games. This may be too low still but as long as I got some out I feel good.I’ve been looking for largest chess games database for some time all over the internet, and there are people who made such databases by collecting games. This found a little over 100k games in common. I did this to all games in the database, with all of the "when deleting twin games" options checked. I ended up with using the following settings to pare my new database down, "Same Player Colors, Same Site, Same Year, Same Month, Same Day, Same Result, Same Moves". I found the default settings too strict as at first it did not identify any identical games, which I knew must be impossible. Here you can set the filters to identify twin games and delete one of them. In SCID v PC go to Tools > Maintence > Delete Twin Games. Is there an easy way in SCID to combine databases while removing redundancies?ĮDIT: Searching a little more I found the answer to this. 11-12-13 The Fritz (ChessBase / DataBase) have removed igre.PGN PGN format ChessBase Reader is marked in red. As of 12-13 in Fritz PGN format to create (convert) CBV format And how do I delete any duplicate games thank you. From V3.10a, cancelling the games dialog after a file open command still opens the file and loads the first game. pgn files with this abomination Combat the recent tendency of Tarrasch to create too many open tabs. While this is very good in some respects, I don't want to just make it my only source since there are classic Staunton games and others from as far back as the 1800s in my current DB and I don't want to lose those. description ChessBase PGN- cbv Wed 1:17 pm. This improves interoperability with other chess programs that choose to start their. While it contains over 1.8 million games of players >2000, they are all since 1990. Since I've been remiss about updating my DB with the This Week In Chess games, I found another resource which has been updated ( ). However of the links it points to for downloading lots of games ICOFY seems like it's no longer hosted and Million Base 2.2 doesn't seem like it's been updated since 2013. 1)Remove exact duplicate games as well as removing games containing the same. The "Set up a free chess database" in the sidebar is a great walkthrough guide to starting a chess database, including how to get started with SCID v PC and download a lot of games to use as your own database. For a more complete list of PGN utilities, I encourage you to check out the.