Don't get me wrong, but where exacly is the difference between opening database and game database? To me, the only difference seems that the game database simply has more pieces of information. (pgn-Files ordered by openings [but not Eco!] can be downloaded at http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html and i can really recommend these ;-) , gives you a really good overview over the most important variations in each opening)
However, I think, what you want, is like an opening book in electronic form, at least, that is what i think of, when i read "from white/black perspective..." , but this is - in my opinion - no database anymore. Some of my chess books can also be purchased in electronic form, but i couldn't find a pattern, which ones can and which can't. Regards Philipp P.S. my english sucks, sorry for that On 3/11/10, Dale Hards <dale.ha...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Once again, well done on a fantastic piece of software. SCID is easily my > favourite open-source software, and I use it a lot. > > I was hoping someone on the mailing list could point me in the direction of > a good free and legal (ie not plagiarised material) PGN for an opening > database, from either white/black/both perspective. I've done some pretty > extensive Googling over the last few weeks, and found a few leads but > nothing came to any luck. I've heard of the Chess Analysis Project and > downloaded all the a-opening PGNs but found they were just games ordered by > ECO. > > I imagine an opening database to be a collection of openings not a > collection of games. Is this correct? Any pointers to an appropriate > download would be very much appreciated. The opening trainer is one of the > few features in SCID I have yet to use. > > If there is no free offering anywhere then I guess I could buy one... but > where would I go? It seems nowhere offer this kind of thing to buy or > download free. > > Thanks > > Dale > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
