Where to get the biggest free database of human pgn games?

[Dan Honeycutt]

Thanks, Norm, I was in need of some pgn files to test a utility I'm working on. Could you post a link to the 400k collection you mentioned a couple posts up?

Thanks
Dan H.

That would be the 4 "gm" pgn files at

http://www.hoflink.com/~npollock/chess.html

Got 'em.

Thanks, Norm
Dan H.

[Norm Pollock]

Some tidbits about the "ecoABCDE" database I just released:

The reason for splitting the database into 14 files is so that most users can view the games in a text editor. If the user wants just one file, he can use copy *.pgn newfile.pgn

All games in "ecoABCDE" have a minimum of 25 plies.

Each move in each game in "ecoABCDE" has been checked for chess legality. However there are plenty of human blunders in the games.

Results ending in a mate (checkmate or stalemate) were checked for accuracy and games with incorrect results were discarded.

The games in "ecoABCDE" have had their tags "stripped" to save file size. Values for "Event", "Site", "Round", and the month and day in "Date" have been replaced by a default "?" value. Elo tags were removed. Extra tags were removed.

Lines were formatted for full moves.

[Ozymandias]

Many thanks, this will be fun to look at.