Hello everybody!
I want to open a topic about the resources of chess databases available online. Where do you collect fresh games from?
I personally prefer the 10 Days database of chessmix.com because my observations are to have the most games, also the tidiest and most organized.
Before I used twic but i had many work after that to orginize better the content.
If you have any favorites, please share with us.
Originally posted by hrisunkoDownloading TWIC on Monday night is like attending church on Sunday morning, excapt that I have broken the habit of church.
Hello everybody!
I want to open a topic about the resources of chess databases available online. Where do you collect fresh games from?
I personally prefer the 10 Days database of chessmix.com because my observations are to have the most games, also the tidiest and most organized.
Before I used twic but i had many work after that to orginize better the content.
If you have any favorites, please share with us.
1 edit
Originally posted by villa68There's a couple: I use ChessbaseLite which you can download free from http://www.chessbase.com/download/index.asp. Others here prefer Winboard which I don't have a link to but someone will give it to you I'm sure. I think it really helps to put your games in either and work thru the variations (and they're a lot less clinky than the analysis board here).
is there any free online item i can use to store games in and view
how much money would i need to invest to get a worthwhile database
Question 2: If by database you mean a collection of Grandmaster and other top player games, the answer is 0$; there's several free on the net. I use http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html, which has over 2 million games; there's others.
Question 3: none that of know of although a few players have worked on something of that sort and may pop in with more details.
1 edit
Originally posted by villa68There are some good online databases:
is there any free online item i can use to store games in and view
how much money would i need to invest to get a worthwhile database
http://www.newinchess.com/--small but selective
http://www.chessgames.com/--annnotated by site visitors
http://www.chesslive.de/--large and comprehensive
I have not used SCID (http://scid.sourceforge.net/), which is a free database program said to rival the commercial ones. I have ChessBase8 and Chess Informant Expert--both commercial database programs with pared down trial versions. ChessAssistant Light is also a pared down free version of excellent commercial database software.
Winboard (http://www.tim-mann.org/chess.html) and Arena (http://www.playwitharena.com/) are terribly limited as database programs, although they can be used to view PGN files. They are excellent for interfacing engines (Arena is running an engine tournament in the background on my computer even now).