SCID Downloads

I have quite a small Scid database of 650,000 games and want to download some more in chunks but it won't let me!!

I tried downloading the 1.74 million off here: http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm but it didn't work!! It downloaded about 2000 games and gave thousands of error reports about unexpected symbols.

Also I tried downloading a few million games from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/ but it did not work for the same reasons, this time only downloading 8000 games. Any help woud be appriciated :)

try http://icofy-blog.de/en/icofy-base/

Had already tried downloading from there. :/

You may need to buy a primo DB to handle these, such as ChessBase. They're up to 11, if you can afford it look around for CB 7, 8 or 9 cheap at amazon and/or eBay.

I believe much cheaper chess playing programs such as Fritz 12 will also handle these DBs in fact I know F12 will because I own it. Look for it at amazon, Fritz 10 or 11 will also work just fine for you.

I read lots of other peeps managed to download it onto SCID though. They just didn't say how.

any ideas?

For download managers, I like the Firefox extension called DownThemAll! It's about the only DL manager I use now.

http://www.downthemall.net/