Study Database

[Patatov]

A few years ago Harold van der Heijden released the Study database 2000 via Chessbase with almost 59,000 studies.
Is there an updated version? or any free database with a large collection of studies?

[Eelco de Groot]

A few years ago Harold van der Heijden released the Study database 2000 via Chessbase with almost 59,000 studies.
Is there an updated version? or any free database with a large collection of studies?

Hello Andre,

Yes there is an updated version, on the informative site of the Dutch ARVES endgame study enthusiasts, site is in Dutch for the greater part;

http://www.arves.org/
http://www.arves.org/Websites.htm


I read that Harold van der Heijden published in 2005 an updated version of his endgame database with 67,691 Endgame studies. It is possible he is working on a new version now I think.


See also Harold's website where you can order the database (PayPal, Credit Card):



From the Read.me:

Endgame Study Database III
by Harold van der Heijden

Introduction

By the end of the 1980’s I started my computerized collection of endgames studies. Since
then I spent several hours each day to update my database. Such a project is an ongoing
process. Not only new studies are being added, but I also update sources, solutions, etc.
The first version of my database (1991) contained 23,358 endgame studies. Ten years later the
second version of my database was issued (2000) which had 58,801 studies. The present
version has 67,691 studies. Not only almost ten thousand new studies were added, but at least
the same number of studies in the database were updated. Especially in recent years many
incorrections were reported to me probably due of the widespread availability of endgame
table databases (EGTB), chess software and increasingly sophisticated hardware. I estimate
the present collection to contain approximately 80% of all endgame studies that were ever
published. In the 21st century with its “mega”-statistics the number of 67 thousand studies
may not impress everyone. But if you would spend only 3 minutes per study, 4 hours each
day, it would take 846 days to play through all studies in this database. Enjoy!

Price for the database Tim Krabbé wrote is about 60 €

Eelco

[Patatov]

Great! Thanks Eelco for such useful information