Where can I get databases of comp games

[thoughtful]

Hi

Where can I get databases of high quality games played by comps. I play a lot of correspondence chess and have the mega databases and CORR datbases provided by chessbase. But I'd like to have some databases of some high quality games played by comps too? Any good sources or are they all generally kept private?

[MirceaH]

The CEGT database of computer chess games is here:
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/downloads.htm

[Graham Banks]

All CCRL games are downloadable also. See here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040.live/games.html

Or for more options, here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/games.html

[eberle]

Hi Larry,
at Lars Balzer homepage you can find a lot of links to chess games played by humans or computers:
http://www.chessgameslinks.lars-balzer.info/
Regards
Dieter

[thoughtful]

many thanks to all for your help

[thoughtful]

All CCRL games are downloadable also. See here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040.live/games.html

Or for more options, here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/games.html

Brilliant resource Graham and nicely categorised. Can I assume there are no duplicates in there? (I can ask Chessbase to check for me but I don't always trust it's remove duplicates function)

[Graham Banks]

All CCRL games are downloadable also. See here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040.live/games.html

Or for more options, here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/games.html

Brilliant resource Graham and nicely categorised. Can I assume there are no duplicates in there? (I can ask Chessbase to check for me but I don't always trust it's remove duplicates function)

There shouldn't be any duplicates in there. Kirill would be the one to ask.

[Spock]

Don't forget SSDF as well, although I don't have a link for a database download for them. Sedatchess may also have some games.

[Norm Pollock]

All CCRL games are downloadable also. See here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040.live/games.html

Or for more options, here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/games.html

Brilliant resource Graham and nicely categorised. Can I assume there are no duplicates in there? (I can ask Chessbase to check for me but I don't always trust it's remove duplicates function)

There shouldn't be any duplicates in there. Kirill would be the one to ask.

Sorry to disagree Graham, but "pgn-extract" shows 147 pairs of duplicates in ccrl 40/40.

Here are the files of the duplicates. Each game in the 1st file (of 147 games) has a duplicate game (with different engines) somewhere in the 2nd file (of 147 games).

http://www.mediafire.com/file/k5m0ygdry ... ates-1.pgn

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qymnyj2zv ... ates-2.pgn

-Norm

[Kirill Kryukov]

All CCRL games are downloadable also. See here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040.live/games.html

Or for more options, here:
http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/games.html

Brilliant resource Graham and nicely categorised. Can I assume there are no duplicates in there? (I can ask Chessbase to check for me but I don't always trust it's remove duplicates function)

There shouldn't be any duplicates in there. Kirill would be the one to ask.

CCRL public databases should not contain duplicates, although someone's definition of a duplicate may differ from ours.