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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Looking for a Large Chess Database

With a number of websites offering online chess databases proliferating (the Chessbase one looks nice), it is still surprisingly difficult to find a free large collection of chess games for download – at least from a legitimate source. Ok, not difficult – impossible. With the ICOFY project being suspended, my options are limited again to downloading TWIC updates and merging them to my existing older ICOFY database.

If anyone is aware of any new source of a relatively consistent free chess database for offline download in PGN, SCID or Chessbase formats – please post a comment or let me know!

2 comments:

  1. 2 million games available here http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm Newest games in the database are end of 2013.

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  2. 2.5 million games here http://pgnchess.com

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