Any free Database PGN of Games from pre historic to now?

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pwnsrppl2

The MillionBase 1.74 link at www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm appears to be broken.  Does anyone have any newer links to a good free database that doesn't include games by 1200-rated players wanting to get their game in a database?

MrEdCollins

It's not difficult at all to create your own database.

For example, go to the Week In Chess archive page:

http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twicp.html

There you can download pgn game files from past issues.  At the bottom of the page is a further link to additional archives.  And a google search will turn up even more.

Tip: Download all of the pgn files automatically from any site with any of the many "Download Them All" types of programs.  (There is a good add-on program for Firefox called DownThemAll! which works great.  This will turn what would otherwise be hours of work into seconds of work.)

Save all of these hundreds of pgn files you automatically download to the same folder.

Then, once you're done, combine them all into a single pgn file instantly with the old DOS copy command:  "Copy *.pgn all_combined.pgn"

You then may the wish to use one of the many pgn cleanup utilities to extract the games from your large file that have with no moves at all, or games with less than six moves, or duplicate games, or whatever criteria you want.

I recently did all of the above and created a pgn database of more than 1.5 million games.

Finally, you can then load this pgn file into your chess database of choice, and create smaller databases of specific openings, or players, or whatever you want.

Triniboi4

Anybody know a good free chess png database for the mac with old games I can see and analyze. I also want to be able to input any game png data from my own and anyone else's. Thanks.

opettet-743

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gonzepge

I loaded icofy-base. Very interesting and very large!

But there is one missing information. It is not possible to know the level of the players of the games. 

Does nayone know about a database that would include the Elo rating of both players, with at least 10^6 games?

MrEdCollins
Using the /b switch works... but it's not necessary.   The /b switch treats all files as binary files and copies them byte for byte.  The pgn files are not binary files so using this switch is not necessary.  The instructions I provided above, in post #22, four years ago, work fine.