Not sure if this has been posted, but for those into big data, here are links to the game database from lichess and fics:
https://database.lichess.org/
(250 million games, about 10% includes stockfish analysis)
and
http://ficsgames.org/
(300 million games)
Does anyone know of other chess servers with a public game database? Playchess? ICC? chess.com?
Any program capable of handling a 1 billion game pgn?
Chess databases from online servers
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Re: Chess databases from online servers
There are quite a few Playchess (and some InfinityChess) engine games available here:
http://www.gladiators-chess.ru/downloads.php?cat_id=1
(site is in Russian but you can use Google Translate).
But they have no updates from Playchess since Jan. this year.
--Jon
http://www.gladiators-chess.ru/downloads.php?cat_id=1
(site is in Russian but you can use Google Translate).
But they have no updates from Playchess since Jan. this year.
--Jon
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Re: Chess databases from online servers
CCRL, CEGT, SSDF are good sources of computer games.
The TCEC tournament has high quality analysis attached to the games.
As for the size of a PGN file, it is limited only by disk space, since they are just text.
I have found that most chess database systems have problems with huge collections, so I generally split my collections by types.
The TCEC tournament has high quality analysis attached to the games.
As for the size of a PGN file, it is limited only by disk space, since they are just text.
I have found that most chess database systems have problems with huge collections, so I generally split my collections by types.
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Re: Chess databases from online servers
For Playchess the question was already anwered.yolin wrote:
Does anyone know of other chess servers with a public game database? Playchess? ICC? chess.com?
Any program capable of handling a 1 billion game pgn?
For ICC it seems there is no known free download site or private collection available.
OTH here is a receipe how to download games from their database, but it needs a paid account.
http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/tutorial ... riveal.php
https://rwbc-chess.de
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Re: Chess databases from online servers
The limit of the new version of SCID will be 4 billion games, 256 million unique names, and 64TB.yolin wrote:Any program capable of handling a 1 billion game pgn?
However even opening one of the monthly lichess database uses more than 16GB of RAM, so the power of the computer will be the real limit.
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Re: Chess databases from online servers
This is good news