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[Joshua Shriver]

I've been running a game observation bot on fics for just about 3 years. I cleaned up the parser and after all of this time consolidated all of the raw data and dumped it through my parser to get a nice big 3.5gig pgn file.

If anyone wants it I've put it on my website.
It's pretty much unfiltered raw pgn games of all elo ratings/unrated. even guest. The only thing I filtered for was variants. Though I kept my raw streams for processing later.

http://olympuschess.com/fics-1.pgn.bz2

Hope releasing this into the wild will help other people besides myself.
It's definitely a fun dataset. If anyone finds any problems please let me know. I wish I could have ran this in scid for error checking but my machine isn't powerful enough to do it. Took my parser (written in perl) almost 2 weeks to crunch the raw data.

-Josh

P.S. I just checked and this file has 4,182,419 games.