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Reply #5 - 12/15/09 at 16:11:08
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Okay, I checked out the website. But I don't see the value of paying for a subscription when you can simply download updates every week for FREE from TWIC. If you can't be bothered to do it every week, do it every month - the weekly update files are still there. Simply buy Bigbase once for 50.00 Euro and keep it updated for free.
  

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Reply #4 - 12/15/09 at 15:45:35
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It's a subscription based website that updates the largest database around, apparently. They update it quite often, at least monthly with new games, and also maintain separate databases for download as well, such as an only FIDE Top 100 database, and a correspondence database.

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Reply #3 - 12/15/09 at 15:39:46
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Personally, I only bought Big Base which is the far cheaper unannotated version. I decided that I get enough annotated games in my book game collections and my subsription to Chesspublishing.com, that I don't need to pay all the extra money for Megabase. I download games from TWIC every Monday or Tuesday to keep it up to date - I have been doing that now for two years.

But I suppose if you want the annotated games in Megabase, you have no choice but to fork out doles of money for the update every year.

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Reply #2 - 12/15/09 at 15:06:23
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If you're going spend that much, why not buy a subscription to Opening Master?
  
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Reply #1 - 12/15/09 at 14:49:19
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This really brings up the question of whether it would be possible to write a script in Python or whatever that would do all the necessary updates in pgn from public sources, e.g. TWIC.
  

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12/15/09 at 14:11:10
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Popped into the Chess & Bridge Centre this morning to make my annual upgrade of the Mega Database only to find the price has gone up from £39.95 last year to £69.95 ...
  
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