I updated the chess games database I am using and put the new version in the downloads section. It is a collection of more than 578000 chess games I put together from various sources on the Internet. In particular, I'd like to acknowledge TWIC for the latest master games and the chess archive of the U Pittsburgh for older chess games. The database is available both in SCID and PGN format. The old version got a few hundred hits, so I hope some people who don't want to spend the money for one of the commercial databases might find this useful.

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written by Christian, April 12, 2008

Downloading the database as I'm typing this! Do you happen to know a chess software that parses board positions in a database and converts it into an opening tree similar to ChessOK? I find this by far the most helpful and accessible way to study variations, lines and games.

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written by RoostH, April 12, 2008

Thanks once more for your contribution to the chess world of free resources!

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written by Sciurus, April 13, 2008

RoostH: you are welcome!

Christian:

I use SCID for showing opening trees, etc. I tried some demo versions of commercial chess database software packages before and found that SCID (free, open source) is really fast and easy to use for the tree view.

There was a discussion in the forum about the merits of SCID:

SCID discussion

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written by chessloser, April 22, 2008

thanks for putting all those games up for download. that rocks. you rock.

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