You won't be able to get all your games in a single dump unless you have a small amount. PGN exports are limited to a page of games at a time.
In v3, you can load more on a page but you have to keep hitting the more link to get to additional games. I don't know if you can get at the whole archive that way or not but it could be time consuming.
I can get 50 at a time based on the first emailed file. That will take a while, even for the last month (I said I was addicted) but might be worth it. Is there a way to get more history?
You must be using v2. As I mentioned, v3 has a link at the bottom of the archive to load more games, though I've never really counted how many more it loads. Based on the way it looks when you do a select all, it should should allow you to download all on the page that way.
It still might take a while, to click the more link and download.
I was able to download 100 games (one day of play) by hitting "more" six or seven times.
Ha ha. Just logged on to grab the last few and saw this ad:
All games are archived forever. However, Basic Members only get access to the past 4 weeks of game archive. Premium Members get unlimited access to all games.
So there's my answer, if I upgrade, yes I can get all 25000+ from the last 4 years.
This morning I downloaded 300 games in one batch. That represents play since late Thursday night.
Ha ha. Just logged on to grab the last few and saw this ad:
Premium: Game ArchiveAll games are archived forever. However, Basic Members only get access to the past 4 weeks of game archive. Premium Members get unlimited access to all games.
So there's my answer, if I upgrade, yes I can get all 25000+ from the last 4 years.
Yes, you will have access to the whole archive. What you won't get is a single link to download the archive in one selection. It's not possible at all on v2 and on v3 you'll be hitting the "more" link hundreds if not thousands of times to get them in that manner. That is assuming there is no limit to the number of pages that will load in that way.
Ok, so I recently weaned myself of my 3min chess addiction. As a free memeber I was able to get the last month of games as a PGN. If I join as a premium member, say for 1 month, can I get the whole history for like the last 4 years in a single PGN? Might be a jump-start for a personal database...
There must be some ideas in those thousands of games I can use for OTB chess!