Engine games particularly? or any games you can get hold of?
It contains everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Online lightning games to world championship correspondence games.
Computer games, human games, etc. If two cows played a game of chess, it would be in there too.
Engine games particularly? or any games you can get hold of?
It contains everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Online lightning games to world championship correspondence games.
Computer games, human games, etc. If two cows played a game of chess, it would be in there too.
That was exactly what I am looking for....thanks....
_No one can hit as hard as life.But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.How much you can take and keep moving forward….
Well, you said it was "junk" so we know what we are getting . But one thing to note in particular is that a good many of the games from engine matches are run with a limited depth book so you are not going to get a broad sampling of opening play from them.
jdart wrote:Well, you said it was "junk" so we know what we are getting . But one thing to note in particular is that a good many of the games from engine matches are run with a limited depth book so you are not going to get a broad sampling of opening play from them.
True, but there are a couple million human/human OTB games and about 800,000 human(?) correspondence games.
My own one had more than 8 000 000 ones more than two years ago. I had a hell of a job pruning it so as to only keep a little less than 2 000 000 more interesting games.
There was a post on playchess a few months ago where you could read that more than 300 million games had been played on their server so far.
ICC has less players by now but a much longer history.
Yahoo chess has thousands of games played everyday.
Trying to search some chess truth in the monster collections of mostly valueless games is an impossible task IMHO.
Marc Lacrosse wrote:I see nothing interesting in these junkbases.
My own one had more than 8 000 000 ones more than two years ago. I had a hell of a job pruning it so as to only keep a little less than 2 000 000 more interesting games.
There was a post on playchess a few months ago where you could read that more than 300 million games had been played on their server so far.
ICC has less players by now but a much longer history.
Yahoo chess has thousands of games played everyday.
Trying to search some chess truth in the monster collections of mostly valueless games is an impossible task IMHO.
Marc
Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I believe that Marcel Van Kervenik had 13 million rated games collected from FICS over ten years ago, so probably he has 50 million by now.
There are plenty of stinkers in junkbase, hence the name.
. But one thing to note in particular is that a good many of the games from engine matches are run with a limited depth book so you are not going to get a broad sampling of opening play from them.