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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #10 - 05/19/15 at 07:31:38
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This is also katar' Mill Base:

http://katar.weebly.com/blog/millbase-for-scid-update2

It's only in SCID format, but it can be easily converted if needed.

Anyway, a very interesting discovering, that King Base.

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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #9 - 05/18/15 at 21:25:07
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Thank you for posting this. I wasted lots of time looking for something similar.
  
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #8 - 05/15/15 at 08:12:02
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"KingBase is a new free chess games collection, usable with most free and commercial chess programs.
Every month, new chess games are added, existing entries are revised and duplicated games are removed.

KingBase is a free alternative to commercial products, but has some limitations:

No annotated games.
No games with less of 6 moves.
No games before 1990.
No games with ELO-rating < 2000.

KingBase (05/2015)

OVER 1.6 MILLION MODERN GAMES (YEAR > 1990), PLAYERS ELO > 2000
PGN Format
(multiple files order by ECO Code)

SCID Format
(works with SCID and SCID forks)

CBV Format"

http://www.kingbase-chess.net/
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #7 - 02/18/14 at 03:50:38
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Thanks Vass. Success! That did it.
Vass wrote on 02/17/14 at 07:47:36:
Try these mirrors:
ChessOK DB (2014 February1 included).cbv 30.55MB
http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/99565350/file.html

TWIC Database 1994-2014 (1-1005).cbv 155.74MB
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/91989944/file.html
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Reply #6 - 02/17/14 at 07:47:36
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Try these mirrors:
ChessOK DB (2014 February1 included).cbv 30.55MB
http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/99565350/file.html

TWIC Database 1994-2014 (1-1005).cbv 155.74MB
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/91989944/file.html
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #5 - 02/17/14 at 00:00:39
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Does anyone have any difficulties downloading? On my Mac, it slows down everything and I cannot get it to save the download over to hard drive.
On my PC at work, the filters are blocking the site when I run on Firefox.
On my old PC laptop running Chrome, nothing happens ……
But thanks Vass for the effort.
  
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #4 - 02/14/14 at 22:18:09
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A one stop download is absolutely much, much better than 1005 downloads  Grin Thanks!
  
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #3 - 02/14/14 at 19:21:33
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Last updates..

http://chessok.com/?page_id=694
"Free Game Service for Download
Every Friday, starting October 2011, new database updates of about 2000 games played in latest tournaments will be available for download in Chess Assistant and PGN formats. You only need the updates released after your Aquarium product. All the updates before that date are already included."

ChessOK DB (2014 February1 included).cbv 30.6 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!k9sGXCDT!2Ldokuhz3nupZytA0qMM3qjOl2NVjfEiNQ6cw-wbIR8

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http://www.theweekinchess.com/twic
"The Week in Chess Magazine
Weekly digest of chess news and games by Mark Crowther. Founded 1994.
Every Monday The Week in Chess covers all the latest news and games from international chess. Download the zipped file of games in PGN or ChessBase (cbv is the modern format) format for reading off-line.
TWIC magazine is free for personal use only. All rights are reserved."

TWIC Database 1994-2014 (1-1005).cbv 155.7 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!Yk9mSIIY!NEDivU5N2MBLLNczJXkrD6AnDfPT3XHCZCRSyV4PDvk

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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #2 - 02/11/14 at 08:33:06
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Many thanks Vass. Yesterdayevening I already downloaded the full package of Twics in one go. No more harassing with unpacking zipfiles, copy paste... This wins me a lot of time. I bookmarked the site.

I don't really know how relevant the other databases are for me. I chose not to download them as I prefer to work with 1 database and I fear that merging them will lead to lots of duplicates. Removing automatically duplicates with the Fritz GUI is not possible (to my knowledge). This could be a good case to anyway choose for the Chessbase package (in the assumption such automatic tool of removing duplicates is available).

Duplicates are for a search through a database not really disturbing. However I do use the same database to build up my openingbook and use the statistics to prepare for games (not blindly of course but it gives a first indication where to search). Duplicates do mess up (at least a bit) the statistics. I also understand for correspondence chess in which time is less critical, this problem is not relevant.

Any further advice is welcome !

Vass, i am really impressed by your network !
  
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
Reply #1 - 02/10/14 at 20:23:44
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Vass, what exactly are these databases? What sort of games are collected?
  
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Re: Freely distributable human chess databases
02/10/14 at 20:05:09
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Another one which I do not collect:
http://icofy-blog.de/en/

...but still:
Icofy DB (update 14.1.2 included).cbv
https://mega.co.nz/#!9kcS1IhC!v1ZZOTf-DnxZ1zDmd0fDqgqph2jK7l_HwLL-Ygy77MM
  
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