I am searching for a broad and extensive games database (i.e. games played between real players.)
- Chess Openings Database Free Download For Mac
- Chess Openings Database Free Download
- Chess Openings Database free. download full
ChessDB is a free chess database which can be used on Microsoft Windows. Download them directly into ChessDB from The Week in Chess (TWIC). Import games from the history of anyone on ICC - you can rapidly download the recent games played by people whose games you wish to study. (FICS support will be be introduced by the end of March 2007).
I can hardly seem to find any (even paid ones.) - However all sorts of chess software has these built in.
Where can I get my hands on one?
Chess Openings Database Free Download For Mac
I will use it for a lot of analyses on different players, openings etc.
Hope someone can help me out!
7 Answers
There is a pretty big one if you are willing to spend some 40 euro.
This (Million Base 2.2) is the biggest free database I know of.
Chess Openings Database Free Download
These databases could be interesting for you:
- The Week In Chess (=TWIC) (free): updated every week, PGN format
- Mega Database of ChessBase (commercial): requires the ChessBase gui
- Huge Database of ChessOK (commercial): requires the ChessAssistant gui
In addition to very good suggestions in the previous answers, you might also be interested in Pgnmentor's site (free).
There you already have free databases sorted according to players and openings, as well as events (tournament, matches etc.). Of course, you can easily produce such thematic games collections from big databases mentioned in other answers, but still, I find separated databases pretty convenient (e.g. for themed research).
There is a combination of PGN Mentor and TWIC files: http://gorgonian.weebly.com/pgn.html
I have some special prepared PGN files for my chess apps. You can download those files:
The download site is here, please note the purpose of the site is to provide easy-to-download games for my iOS app users.
SmallChessSmallChessThere are tons of databases out there. http://chessgames.com, http://pgnmentor.com, etc. Check http://www.chessfiles.com/chess-database.html for other databases
ChessTempo.com has recently added a new functionality - a database. All the options are described in the user guide at http://chesstempo.com/user-guide/en/chessDatabase.html