Database (for only one year)

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Hi all - I have been using Chess Assistant since 2011.  At first, I was pretty diligent at updating it from the chessok website. I remember doing a marathon one time downloading about 35 (!) files.  It was a pain in the a** to be sure.

 

So, I haven't updated since 2012 or so.  I'd like to find a site that has aggregated all the year's games, so I can just import 2, maybe 3, files into my database.

 

Does anyone do that or am I stuck downloading potentially dozens of files again?  I realize I could buy the latest versions of Megadatabase or CA, but it doesn't seem worth spending for me.

Thanks in advance!

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(1) Look into a cool add-on for Firefox called DownThemAll.  This add-on has saved me lots and lots of time.  It can download hundreds (or more) files from a site automatically, with no interaction from the user.

(2) Look into the DOS COPY command.  This command can merge all of the files into a folder into one file.  (Copy *.pgn all.pgn)

With these two tricks you can download hundreds of pgn files from a single site, while you're making yourself a cup of coffee.  Afterwards, one command will merge them all into one file.  You now have one large pgn file that you can merge with your existing database.

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MrEdCollins wrote:
(2) Look into the DOS COPY command.  This command can merge all of the files into a folder into one file.  (Copy *.pgn all.pgn)

copy /b *.pgn all.pgn

Otherwise you'll get EOF (end-of-file) byte at the end of the new file.

P.S.: DownThemAll probably won't help much in case of ChessOK, since the links to the files are on their individual pages. Should be possible to make a script in let's say Python that generates a list of files and then use wget.

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