FICS Data

[beachknight]

Can you post your cleaned data set back to Joshua so others can benefit? I'd offer to host it but while I have bandwidth, I don't have the disk.

Personally also I am not generally interested in short blitz and lightning games or games from players < about 1600 on FICS. So for my own use at least I'd cull those.

--Jon

Just now, I am removing dupes in my r db. This will take a while.
After this process, approx. 5 hours later, I'll post the links in four parts
for download as fics2006, fics2007, fics2008 and fics2009.

You are right, Joshua can process them further and add
additional games.

Best,

[beachknight]

FICS 2006: 106k games

http://rapidshare.com/files/309412640/fics2006.zip

[beachknight]

FICS 2007: 313k games 56 MB

FICS 2008: 623k games 112 MB

FICS 2009: 510k games 92 MB

Download Links to follow

[beachknight]

FICS 2007:

http://rapidshare.com/files/309417820/fics2007.zip

Remaining games: 59k 5 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/309421203/ficsothe.zip

[beachknight]

FICS 2008:

http://rapidshare.com/files/309429473/fics2008.zip

[beachknight]

FICS 2009:

http://rapidshare.com/files/309431186/fics2009.zip

[jshriver]

If anyone has a cleaned up version I'd be more than willing to host. Have tons of space free and very little bandwidth used minus occassional spikes like when I release files like this.

Btw I can add a lot of other info, like time between moves, etc. Draw by repetition. I kept all the raw data because I knew there was still a lot that could be taken out of it.

-Josh

[jshriver]

Mr. Taner do you mind if I put these on my server? Might take a little while with rapid share as I don't have an account but willing to host them.

Also if other people have ideas on what kind of data they'd like I can try and make specific releases.

I'm expecting to start collecting A LOT more data. Now that I'm going by history files instead of live games I'm getting more games in a couple hours than I would in a week or more the old method.

-Josh

[jshriver]

Checked and right now my raw data streams from fics over the past 3 years is 61gigs. So up for options on what people would like to have grabbed from it.

[beachknight]

Absolutely you can put the files on your server.
I thought you can process them and your data
further and find more games than I did.

My preference with your data is:
FICS rated games (standard or blitz), 10 moves and more.
No suicide, bughouse etc.

Jon's one is 1600+ standard games, no blitz etc.

Lets hear what other specialists might say.

Best,