Pro tip: If you go the Hiarcs route, buy it first, and then they'll send you a discount code for the opening book. If you're researching an opening book, you may find that helpful. In typical opening book fashion, you won't see the games, but you can branch through the opening moves and it will show you percentage wins for white vs. I've had pretty good luck finding games in these databases that are referenced in chess books that I own.Īlso, fwiw - if you go the Hiarcs route - they have an add-on subscription to an online tournament book that gives you access to latest opening theory. The set I describe above covers a lot, and I think it would be a pretty good way to get started. I think Megabase has a lot more games than these three in total, but not sure where those other games come from. There were some other databases out there as well, but the ones I saw were either specific to a particular database program (chessbase or scid), or just seemed like an overlap from what I got in the first three I mentioned. I'm not a big fan of the SCID gui, so ended up using Hiarcs Chess Explorer (base version is only $50). SCID and SCIDvPC(or Mac) are free, so worth trying at least. You'll obviously need a database to view them. Kingbase and TWIC are modern games, but there's a lot of them, so it's worth having those too, especially since those will cover a lot of modern opening theory. If you pull the entire collection, it's a pretty substantial set of games that go back to at least the 1800's, and it has most, if not all, of the famous players that people tend to talk about and study. PGNMentor has a ton of old games, and you can download them by Player, or by tournament. The three best things I found were Kingbase, PGNMentor and TWIC. I recently went through the exercise of finding a large collection of chess games online. For example, from a given position, what are the percentages of white wins, draws, and black wins? What are the average ratings of the white and black players in the games that reached this position? Etc. Thanks in advance for your recommendations!ĮDIT: In addition to finding all master games from a given position, I'd like access to as many statistics as possible. But I haven't used them extensively, and I don't know how they compare or if any of them (or any other leading game collections) have quality problems, such as containing duplicate games. I have a little bit of experience with the game collections at, (I like their feature of being able to find games where both players are above a specified rating), and. (Overall size of the collection doesn't matter I'm not interested in seeing below-master games, so just the master-level ones matter to me.) I don't mind paying a bit for access if that's required. I'm writing an opening book, and for my research, I want access to a large database of master-level games. Please continue to give us your feedback and suggestions on how we can help make /r/chess better for everyone. Use the message the moderators link if your posts or comments don't appear, or for help with any administrative matters. Twitter/Facebook posts must contain a direct link to the tweet/post, and include the author's nameĬhess Spoiler format for problem answers etc., Instructions for /r/chess PGN addon ( Chrome, Firefox)ĭon’t engage in abusive, discriminatory, or bigoted behavior.ĭon't ask for advice about ongoing games.ĭo not use /r/chess exclusively to promote your own content. News Puzzles Games Strategy Twitch Other Resources
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