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Hello, everyone!

It's my first post here.

I would like to ask a question about databases. I know there is ChessBase, there is Chess.com library and LiChess allows you to create a repertoire. However, I was looking for a way to create a database offline, preferably for free. Do you have any knowledge on this and a suggestion to make?

Thanks for reading and your help.

Have a fantastic day!

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365Chess is a possible database; although I don't know whether it requires payment. If this is something you don't like, you can Google "chess databases" and it will display various databases you could use.

Please DM (direct message) me if you need any more information.

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If you want to create a database of master games yourself I suppose you could go to sites like this one: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015 and download pgns and put them together...

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does chessbase not allow offline version??

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idk

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chesswhiz2031 wrote:

365Chess is a possible database; although I don't know whether it requires payment. If this is something you don't like, you can Google "chess databases" and it will display various databases you could use.

Please DM (direct message) me if you need any more information.

Thanks for your useful suggestions. I'm doing research on it and found pretty interesting things. Thank you!

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ninjaswat wrote:

If you want to create a database of master games yourself I suppose you could go to sites like this one: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015 and download pgns and put them together...

Thanks for your tip! My main goal is to create a database for my opening repertoire, but the link you gave me has pretty interesting stuff. Thank you!

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Maverick_06130 wrote:

Thanks for your contribute. I didn't know about this database, it is very good. However, is not what I'm looking for, because the database I want is with my repertoire and not other's games. Regardless of that, thank you!

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Krish12344 wrote:

does chessbase not allow offline version??

ChessBase is offline. However, it is a pretty expensive software and my goal was finding alternatives to it. Thanks for your participation!

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This is not quite what you are asking about, but I have compiled some libraries from Chess.com's database geared to.a few chess books. You can view them in my blog https://www.chess.com/blog/Bruce_Hedman/libraries-from-chess-coms-database

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The Week In Chess provides collections of recent tournament PGNs, and you could download those and combine them in a database.

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AntonioCardosoPiano wrote:
Krish12344 wrote:

does chessbase not allow offline version??

ChessBase is offline. However, it is a pretty expensive software and my goal was finding alternatives to it. Thanks for your participation!

in that case the best u can do is probably find manual libraries, and try to create em urself as well

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https://scid.sourceforge.net/

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AntonioCardosoPiano wrote:
chesswhiz2031 wrote:

365Chess is a possible database; although I don't know whether it requires payment. If this is something you don't like, you can Google "chess databases" and it will display various databases you could use.

Please DM (direct message) me if you need any more information.

Thanks for your useful suggestions. I'm doing research on it and found pretty interesting things. Thank you!

Of course! Always my pleasure!

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Bruce_Hedman wrote:

This is not quite what you are asking about, but I have compiled some libraries from Chess.com's database geared to.a few chess books. You can view them in my blog https://www.chess.com/blog/Bruce_Hedman/libraries-from-chess-coms-database

That's a pretty hard work to do and you really made it. Congratulations! Not what I asked, as you said, but I will love to follow that and other things that you accomplish. Thank you very much!

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MGleason wrote:

The Week In Chess provides collections of recent tournament PGNs, and you could download those and combine them in a database.

Thanks! In this specific case, I want to do a manual thing, with ideas for me to study and play. Thank you for the comment!

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Krish12344 wrote:
AntonioCardosoPiano wrote:
Krish12344 wrote:

does chessbase not allow offline version??

ChessBase is offline. However, it is a pretty expensive software and my goal was finding alternatives to it. Thanks for your participation!

in that case the best u can do is probably find manual libraries, and try to create em urself as well

Exactly! I'm already working on it. Thank you!

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Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I installed Scid vs Mac and is amazing, I'm working on what I want to put there. Thanks a lot!

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AntonioCardosoPiano wrote:

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I installed Scid vs Mac and is amazing, I'm working on what I want to put there. Thanks a lot!

You are welcome!