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! (look for '') See also: The Test Positions page on the Chess Programming Wiki, and this collection of PGN and EPD openings posted to the CCC forum. 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. Chess Openings Pgn Files Download Free There is a suite of 2400 test positions in PGN format available from the gaviota chess engine website. 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. 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.