Hi all, my plan is to create my own database using only very high quality games. My plan was to download the games of the greats, and only at times each player was at the top of his game. I planned on including the likes of Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov, Capablanca, Alekhine, Anand, Botvinnik etc, and maybe including all other games from players that were rated over 2700 at the time the game was played. If i then delete each players losses, that would make a top top quality database?

What am i missing here? as i know that my fritz database for example has millions of games, but the quality is just not good for many many of the games, surely lower numbers of games makes for a higher quality?

Please give me advice and also any links you have for downloading quality games. I had in mind the scid software and for games, the week in chess and chessgames.com as a starting point. 

Cheers!

Well, "quality" is a vague concept. I think you should think a lot about your plans for the database. How will you use it? eyt.

It can be instructive to see non-book moves being punished when you try to learn an opening

http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html

Hundreds of games there.  However, I think you are missing something here.

If a 2700+ Grandmaster (say, Alekhine for instance) loses a game, then it would imply that the other player played better than Alekhine, a super GM.  How can that not be a quality game?  :)

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/quotsuper-gmquot-games---pgn

The verison of Fritz I have has 300,000 games on the database, going back to the 1600's.  Just about any Chess player I can think of is on it so its good enough for me.  Funny thing is, I never use it.  Too busy playing Chess to study it.