Recent ICC Games

[beachknight]

I am looking for recent ICC games for my new research db.

Is there such a thing publicly available?

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ches ... ssage/3491

Best,

[jshriver]

I had thought about getting an ICC account for fun and for recording games but sounds like they frown upon that. Whereas fics even gave me a special TD account for my harvester.

If ICC wouldn't mind I'd gladly pony up the cash for an account. The protocols should be pretty similar so my bot(s) should require little to no code changes.

-Josh

[beachknight]

I had thought about getting an ICC account for fun and for recording games but sounds like they frown upon that. Whereas fics even gave me a special TD account for my harvester.

If ICC wouldn't mind I'd gladly pony up the cash for an account. The protocols should be pretty similar so my bot(s) should require little to no code changes.

-Josh

What I could think is that ICC possibly wants to have some cash
from the games data. You know, there are big bucks on the table.

Best,

[jshriver]

When I started this project a couple years back, there was a good discussion here on the legality of pgn data. I took a deep long look into it, and the general consensus at the time that a game in and of itself is not a copyright-able item. So sharing games wasn't a bad thing.

Where the lines became blurry and seem to end is not a game, but a specific "collection".

Like if company X sells a DVD with a custom made set they hand collected and worked, that set would be a somewhat copyright-able item.

So in regards to fics I took it two ways. I'm doing essentially what anyone can do by "observe game#" just doing it in an automated fashion and collecting the resulting data. So getting it one game at a time, well 10 at a time.

The other thing I made sure of, is that the people at FICS were ok with it. 61gigs in 3 years is a modest amount of bandwidth and wanted their blessing (hense the Oannes account there).

So for the gifts given to me, I'm trying to give back to the community what I have, in hopes that others can use it. My initial goal was to collect as many games as possible for opening theory study, opening books, and with time even a collection of playing styles.

Now that I'm redesigning the bot I'm paying a lot of time making sure it get's only the bare minimum of data that I want to limit the bandwidth footprint it'll consume.

Enough for now, time to grab the next fics file from rapidshare
-Josh