which chess Data base is free and user friendly?

yesterday i download the chessDB by Dr david, but i deleted it today, it was 41 mb and very complicated for a player like me, it got tutorial which was under construction and i didnt knew how to search game , i didnt found and options that way and when i move the pieces in the software it was only me who was playing, unlike in chess.com game explorer which give all the data from the very first move and also candidates move

is there any software available?

PGN files   and   the software to browse them  are two differnet parts. So your problem maybe  a game browser but not a  database file? 

Yeah I just use the one from  chess.com, maybe other guys will have some local ones to recommend 

i am totally confused, really feels like an idiot

SCID is good, but requires a little learning curve..watch a tutorial video or two, and you should be on board.

SCID is chess database?

yes..more strictly, SCID is the interface..you get the pgn database compatible to SCID for free, or you can make your own database out of pgn games. you need to learn how to use the software though..i guess scid and chessdb are very similar, not sure.

Huge, free database:

http://www.365chess.com/opening.php

scid is decent. however, remember that if you are using games from free sources then it is possible that they do not contain the result so you may be playing 'book' moves which actually result in a loss. this is not a problem in chessbase as the database contains the result as well as statistics for win/loss in each line. i don't know if scid is enabled to display statistics which actually may be a good thing in disguise as you are forced to evaluate positions for yourself but ideally it's not wha a user looks for when they use a database.

what u suggest than?

how can i make my own database?

Thats the one I use. Easy 2 use, 3.5 million games, explorer and so forth. Intuitive with no learning curve.

Any amateur would need a very good reason, to create their own database, with resources like this free online.

Boys and their toys, I guess.

get a database which has results and stats imo

for most amateurs 365chess.com is good enough. a dedicated database software is similar, but you can do a lot more if know how to use it..but you need to learn a lot..

never use a database as the primary source of learning your openings. they are useful, but following them blind without understanding the intricacies of the openings is extremely dangerous.

I like to use the openings explorer in 365chess to find  games in the opening I want to study, download them and play solitaire chess with them so I can c the way the masters handle that particular opening. I also use the database when reading a book. Instead of having to play out the game in the book on my chessboard, I get the pgn and use it with SCID or Winboard to play out the game on my computer.

I use SCID with ICOfY database - 4.5 million game, all free, but not very good tagging (dates, events, sometimes ELO missing). It's very comprehensive though.

i have not been able to use icopy somehow. it comes in five parts and the tree in scid somehow doesn't parse correctly.

oh by the way, just got scid to work with icopy. great database. includes results and stats :)

This one is good, but it's a bit annoying that it has to reload the page every move.

Try this one:

http://www.chessbites.com/

scid also has a neat feature called 'training' whereby it hides the next move so you can guess it. you also need to close the pgn window for this :)