An excellent place to start is ICOFY -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/ - it is an open source collection
of chess games, although many of them are weaker games. You could always
filter out all games of less than 2200 ELO points per player though.
I find it best to combine ICOFY with all the pgns available at TWIC -
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic
Also keep your db up to date with the weekly additions to TWIC. Most of my
games are from these two sources, and they are both legal free downloads,
with ICOFY even being under the GPL licence. I have no complaints,
especially as TWIC boosts the strength of a plain ICOFY db by a large
margin.
Dale
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Magnus Larsson <mag...@vista.se> wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections
> to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online
> databases, like http://chessopeningsdatabase.com/
>
> Best,
>
>
> Magnus
>
>
> Dale Hards wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson <mag...@vista.se
> > <mailto:mag...@vista.se>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, the feature "Play - Training - Openings" souds interesting -
> but
> > it asks med to first open repertoire database. So what is that...?
> How
> > do I find or construct one?
> >
> >
> > As Alexander has said there is a help file, which I am actually in the
> > process of rewriting (should be soon).
> >
> > To answer your question - there's lots of ways you can construct a
> > repertoire. Basically, the process is - get a database of games with
> > the openings you want, perhaps a database of just the Bishop's Opening
> > for example, then find a way to mark some of these games as white
> > openings or black openings. Then you need to set the icon of the
> > database to one of the opening icons.
> >
> > For example, here's one way to construct a simple database - I can't
> > vouch for it's quality.
> >
> > Filter one of your databases (or download one from the internet - you
> > can even buy some although I like to stick to the free/open-source
> > ones) for the opening you want, then copy the filtered games to
> > a separate database, named something appropriate - e.g.:
> > "BishopsOpening". Then in that database, you need to assign some games
> > as white opening, and some as black opening (you can do just the one,
> > or you can do both). One way you could do this, is filter the new
> > database for 1-0 results, then go to the Database Maintenance window,
> > and assign the filter games with the "White Opening" flag. Then if you
> > want black openings, do the same for 0-1 results, using the "Black
> > Opening" flag.
> >
> > Finally you set the icon. Up in the top right corner of the Database
> > Maintenance window you should see a picture. Click on the picture and
> > select the appropriate icon. I.e. if you have only flagged white
> > openings, choose the white openings icon, if you have both, choose the
> > black and white openings icon, etc, etc.
> >
> > I don't have SCID on this computer, so I'm doing this from memory -
> > but it should be correct.
> >
> > Alexander - this is the kind of thing I'll be putting in the help
> > file. Are you satisfied with this level of explanation?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> >
> >
> > Grateful for any advice on this.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Magnus
> >
> >
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