Chess databases from online servers

[yolin]

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?

[jdart]

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

[Dann Corbit]

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.

[Guenther]

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 Playchess the question was already anwered.
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

[Fulvio]

Any program capable of handling a 1 billion game pgn?

The limit of the new version of SCID will be 4 billion games, 256 million unique names, and 64TB.
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.

[styx]

This is good news