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| Posted by gibo nikto.net 8/22/2003 02:35:03 Play online chess |  Subject: where can i download large amounts of games?Message: recently i've just being downloading games from major tournaments such as linares and all those other super gm events im wandering where i can download large amounts of games preferably by players of 2100+ it doesn't matter if they're not annoted does anyone know such a site where i can download say 10 000 games? | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by sodiumattack nikto.net 8/22/2003 02:39:56 Play online chess | Try here! Message: www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/index.htm | ||||||||||||||||
| Posted by gibo nikto.net 8/22/2003 04:47:53 Play online chess | Message: yes but aren't game collections this large usually of a very low standard with lots of internet games and just missing a lot of information, im not really after a game collection that big anyway it'll take me to long to download. ——— Chennai make bid to host 2012 world title match — Chennai, India, has made a bid, backed by the Tamil Nadu state government, to host the 2012 Vishy Anand (India) verses Boris Gelfand (Israel) world title match. The world chess governing body Fide will now decide between Chennai and an earlier bid from Moscow. Magnus Carlsen, world No1 at 20, and Sergey Karjakin, No4 at 21, are exceptional for their age, yet they now face a challenge from two still younger chess grandmasters who are advancing fast up the rankings. Italy's Fabiano Caruana, 18, took first prize at New Delhi last month and is ranked in the top 20 GMs, while Anish Giri, 17, won the Dutch chess championship by a two-point margin. Giri is reaching his rating targets at a younger age than ... Posted by pebbles | nikto.net 8/22/2003 06:50:57 Play online chess 2600.zipMessage: www.uni-klu.ac.at/~gossimit/c/curious.htm Here you can download, among others, the following files: 2600.zip: 7979 games where both players have at least Elo rating of 2630; 2500.zip: 75,000 grandmaster games (both players have rating >2500). ——— Bobby Fischer: How the king of chess lost his crown — By Garry Kasparov. Bobby Fischer was the chess world’s flawed genius. His mercurial brilliance was undisputed, but his fragile mental health led to poisonous and very public outbursts - especially after 9/11 - that prompted global revulsion. Garry Kasparov, himself world chess champion for 20 years, remembers with fondness and frustration the man he most wishes he had played: It would be impossible for me to write dispassionately about Bobby Fischer even if I were to try. I was born the year he achieved a perfect score at the US Chess Championship in 1963, 11 wins with no losses or draws. He was only 20 at that point but it had been obvious for years that he was destined to become ... Posted by gibo | nikto.net 8/22/2003 19:14:15 Play online chess Message: thanks pebbles this is just what im after if anyone else has any good pgn files to download like pebbles im still interested ——— When not seeing is believing — This week Toronto is hosting the 2011 Canadian Open Chess Championship, and although I was not able to participate in the tournament, I had the unique good fortune to be there for the weekend to conduct a blindfold simultaneous exhibition. This is not the first time I have played multiple games of chess while blindfolded, but this one upped the ante. My usual blindfold limit is five boards simultaneously, and I've played with this set up a number of times. But this time I was pitted against six people, a feat I have only accomplished once - and that was more than 25 years ago. Adding to the challenge was the strength of the chess players. Normally, I recommend my opposition to be ... Posted by larsenb | nikto.net 8/23/2003 03:50:17 Play online chess TWICMessage: You can also try The Week In Chess website www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html Every week (every monday i guess) you can find a online magazine and a database of recent tournament games, in various format and containing around 1000-2000 games. You can also access the past archives since 1998 Regards ——— From the archive, 12 July 1972: Fischer's late opening gambit in Reykjavik — Originally published in the Guardian on 12 July 1972. Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer finally made it to the world championship chessboard tonight and there was an almost palpable sense of relief throughout the auditorium at the sports stadium here, that chess had at last taken over from the ballyhoo. Yet Fischer was characteristically late. Promptly at 5pm Spassky walked on to the stage accompanied by the West German referee Herr Lothar Schmid, who had raced back to Iceland from his son's car crash in West Germany. Spassky immediately played his opening pawn to Queen four, and the match was underway. Spassky sat for a while and then walked around the board. Five minutes later ... Posted by h86m | nikto.net 8/23/2003 08:06:03 Play online chess Message: Pebbles, the files at the site you mentioned are *.cbv files. My chessmaster 9000, however, only seems to be able to load PGN files. Do I need an extra software to load these games? ——— On Chess: Frequent walks gave Fischer's brain a boost — Many stories concern Bobby Fischer's fondness for walking. On three or four occasions during the 1960s, I met him by chance as he perambulated around New York. He was always friendly and eager to talk. Late-night walks often took him to chess hangouts such as the Chess and Checker Club of New York, where he would frequently take on a player of master strength, offering up to 15-1 odds to his opponent and the gathering kibitzers. He seemed to tremendously enjoy the fun and hilarity provoked by the impromptu exhibitions. A champion boxer once described to me the difficulty of keeping up with Fischer's walking tours. There seems to have been a method to his locomotion. Rae Pica, author of ... Posted by pebbles | nikto.net 8/23/2003 09:43:16 Play online chess ChessbaseMessage: h86m, you need Chessbase or a database program capable of reading the chessbase format. There exists a free version of Chessbase, Chessbase Light, which can read files with up to 8000 games (the file 2600.zip was tailored for such users, while from the file 2500.zip only the first 8000 games will be visible). Perhaps your program chessmaster 9000 can import and read such files (it should!), but I am not sure. There are many other programs, which are freely downloadable from the internet, which can read these files, for instance the database programs Bluepaul, Chess Assistant demo, Scid (recommended by many). Also, many chessplaying programs, and even e-mail chess utilities, should have no problems with such files. Finally you might want to use a cbv-to-pgn converter; there is one here: www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm#KONVERT It is called cb2pgn.zip; there's also a lot of other stuff on that page, which might be useful to you. Posted by h86m | nikto.net 8/23/2003 22:22:48 Play online chess Message: Thanks pebbles! I'll take a look at the link you gave. Posted by larsenb | nikto.net 8/24/2003 02:59:08 Play online chess HmmmmMessage: I think many of the software above won't work... CBV format is a compressed ChessBase format (the usable database is a bunch of at least 7 files, the main one being a *.CBH) which is even less supported than the .CBH one; this in turns is a proprietary format for which documentation is not easily available... to my knowledge only a few commercial software, apart from those by ChessBase, can open it ChessMaster can't open it, Scid and Bluepad neither, while cb2pgn, if i recall correctly, can handle *old* chessbase format (.CBF), not this new one used by CB6 and above. If you need more than 8000 games, your best bet is the Chess Assistant Demo, it surely support CBH, i don't know about .CBV... Regards Posted by brucehum | nikto.net 8/24/2003 08:47:34 Play online chess chessopolisMessage: You could check Chessopolis www.chessopolis.com/ It has a large collection of games, and many of them are in many formats: chessbase, chess assistant, bookup, pgn. |