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What would you recommend as the best site for downloading quality pgn files that I can use to populate my database.
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Best site for downloading pgn files?
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Re: Best site for downloading pgn files?
What kind of data are you after?Fguy64 wrote:greetings
What would you recommend as the best site for downloading quality pgn files that I can use to populate my database.
Thanks
In general, it is hard to beat the links provided by Lars:
http://www.chessgameslinks.lars-balzer.info/
For human games TWIC is a common source.
None of the listed sources are really much good for correspondence games. For that, I usually purchase the data.
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Re: Best site for downloading pgn files?
I'm looking for human games. Mostly I will use them to build an opening tree to work on my opening repertoire. Most likely I'll be using SCID and I am starting my database from scratch. I play all my chess online at chessclub.com and FICSDann Corbit wrote:What kind of data are you after?Fguy64 wrote:greetings
What would you recommend as the best site for downloading quality pgn files that I can use to populate my database.
Thanks
In general, it is hard to beat the links provided by Lars:
http://www.chessgameslinks.lars-balzer.info/
For human games TWIC is a common source.
None of the listed sources are really much good for correspondence games. For that, I usually purchase the data.
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Re: Best site for downloading pgn files?
Why not just converting chessbase mega-databases into pgn files then?
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