Chessgames Database

[Marine Farinha]

TheChess Tempo Chess Database provides over two million searchable chess games. The database can be searched via many criteria, including chess players, chess opening, player ratings, game result, and the year the chess game was played. Chess opening statistics can been viewed on the display to the right of the board. To search the chess database, either enter your criteria into the quick search box or use the advanced search by clicking on the advanced search label. To see the chess games in the database for the current position, click on the "Games for Position" tab. You can start from any position by using the paste FEN/moves button directly below the chess board. By default, the database only shows chess games where both players were rated over 2200, you can change the database subset using the database selector at the top of the page.

The best free, downloadable chess database I've found is Kingbase ( -chess.net). It only has games since 1990. I also have the Android Chessbase Online app, which also appears to only have relatively newer games. The only source I know of that has historical chess games is www.chessgames.com (but I don't think you can download the entire database into something like SCID).

It's trivial to change the code such that you extract all games from chessgames (entire database) into a single PGN file. I believe you're a programmer, so that shouldn't be an issue for you.

Chess on StampsMany years ago, when it seems like I had more time, and there was no computer screen to distract me, my stamp collection didn't gather dust on the shelf. "Topical Collecting" -- collecting stamps picturing certain topics, rather than the stamps of a single country, caught my interest, and I started to accumulate stamps with the chess theme. As I hand-lettered my album pages and researched the tournaments, I felt some regret that others couldn't share the lovely images. Now, with the advent of a webpage which anyone can browse, my feeling of regret is gone: I've dusted off my collection, and the tiny images can be seen larger-than-life, through the magical philatelic magnifying lens of the WWW. Here I present a selection of some of the earliest ones, from 1947 through 1962. Bulgaria 1947USSR 1948Jugoslavia 1950Hungary 1950Cuba 1951Finland 1952Bulgaria 1962

CCA Chess TournamentsThis site is for some of the major chess tournaments that are run by the Continental Chess Association. The Continental Chess Association runs a lot of tournaments each year (much more than just the ones on this website) and you can view a list of them at their Upcoming Tournaments Page. There are some things you will need to know or have to ensure your playing experience is maximized at Continental Chess Association events. General Tournament Information - This page details contact information, how to enter a tournament, the refund policy and some general information on ratings and advanced entries.

Adolf Anderssen vs Paul Morphy (1858)Petrosianic: There seem to be excuses for most great player's defeats, and most of them are dubious. So many people just have a hard time conceiving of one of the greats being truly beaten. That's why in pro wrestling they have such a wealth of ways for a Face to lose without losing cleanly.

Maarten van 't Kruijs vs Adolf Anderssen (1861)Maarten van 't Kruijs vs Adolf Anderssen Amsterdam 1861 Anderssen Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Spot an error? Please submit a correction slip and help us eliminate database mistakes! This game is type: CLASSICAL (Disagree?Maarten van 't Kruijs vs Adolf Anderssen (1861)Maarten van 't Kruijs vs Adolf Anderssen Amsterdam 1861 Anderssen Opening: General (A00) 1-0 Spot an error? Please submit a correction slip and help us eliminate database mistakes! This game is type: CLASSICAL (Disagree?

Richard Lichtenscheidt vs Hermann Von Hanneken (1862)Richard Lichtenscheidt vs Hermann Von Hanneken WSB-02.Kongress 1862 Creepy Crawly Formation: Classical Defense (A00) 1/2-1/2 Spot an error? Please submit a correction slip and help us eliminate database mistakes! This game is type: CLASSICAL (Disagree?

Search Chess Games

Searching in our Chess Games Database it's really easy! Select your search criteria like: player's name, ECO code or result, and you will get the resultant chess games in a second!

Chess Puzzles

If you really want to improve your chess skills you should practice. And the funnest way of practicing is solving puzzles! Regular training sessions will boost your chess playing level.

Create your own Database

You can make your own chess games database and you can have the same tools we have developed for our own database. Analyzing your games with the Opening Explorer will boost your play learning how you perform on each line played!

Player's Opening Explorer

Do you want to know how does Carlsen play with white pieces? or which moves does Anand choose against 1.e4? With the Player's Opening Explorer, now 365Chess.com has the answers to these questions!

Search & Browse the Masters Database

Now you'll be able to search and browse a database of games played by the Masters! In our Big Database you'll find more of 3.5 million interesting games played by all kind of players. But if you want only the games featuring world's best players, the Masters Database is for you. Start learning from the Masters right now!

Unlimited Chess Puzzles

Supporters get unlimited access to the problems in the database. Train your tactical ability, exercise your calculating skills and candidate moves evaluation.

In chess, en passant is a special pawn capture that takes place when a pawn moves to a square directly beside an enemy pawn that has just advanced two squares, capturing it as if it had moved only one square (see visual explanation below). We understand if this is confusing to you. Let us explain!

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.[1] The site maintains a large database of chess games, where each game has its own discussion page for comments and analysis. Limited primarily to games where at least one player is of master strength, the database begins with the earliest known recorded games and is updated with games from current top-level tournaments. Basic membership is free, and the site is open to players at all levels of ability, with additional features available for Premium members. Consultation games are periodically organized with teams of members playing either other teams of members or masters, including a former US champion and two former world correspondence champions.[2]

Members can maintain their own discussion pages, and there are features to assist study of openings, endgames and sacrifices. The front page features a puzzle of the day, player of the day, and game of the day, the puzzle varying in difficulty throughout the week from "very easy" on Mondays to "insane" on Sundays.

Co-founder and longtime webmaster Daniel Freeman died on July 24, 2018, at the age of 50. The site is currently being administered on an interim basis by a user with the handle "Sargon", a longtime friend and business partner of Freeman's who had assisted him with management of the site at various times.[6]

The site's database of games was originally constructed by combining six large databases and weeding out duplicate games.[7] The primary criterion for inclusion in the Chessgames.com database is that one of the players should be master strength (an Elo rating of 2200 or above) to reduce low quality games and erroneous fabrications. Their original goal was 750,000 games, which was their estimate of the total number of serious chess games that had been recorded up to and including 2005.[3] As of 2020[update] the database contains close to a million games.[1] Each game page lists a user feedback process to eliminate bad games, help correct errors, and remove any duplicates.

Each game on Chessgames.com is hosted on a separate web page to allow internal and external weblinks to that particular game. Although other online databases may contain more games (which are not necessarily screened for quality), they typically do not permit external links to individual games or allow for kibitzing on each game. According to its webmaster, Chessgames strives for quality games without participating in the arms-race mentality that produces chess databases containing millions of questionable games.

Prominent Chessgames.com members include former Women's World Champion Susan Polgar, former World Championship candidate Nigel Short, former U.S. Champion Gata Kamsky, chess authors Grandmaster Raymond Keene and FIDE Master Eric Schiller, FIDE Master Jonathan Sarfati, past USCF President Grandmaster Maxim Dlugy, International Master Lawrence Day, and Woman Grandmasters Natalia Pogonina and Yelena Dembo. Grandmasters who have posted on Chessgames.com include Varuzhan Akobian, Rogelio Antonio Jr., Keith Arkell, Oliver Barbosa, Jayson Gonzales, Danny Gormally, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Arno Nickel, David Norwood, James Plaskett, Alejandro Ramirez, Yury Shulman, Wesley So, Mihai Suba, Gert Jan Timmerman, Tansel Turgut, Mikhail Umansky, Simon Kim Williams and Patrick Wolff.

Chessgames.com's stated goal for members is "to participate and learn from players stronger than [themselves], while guiding those who are weaker."[22] The site is designed to be "a worldwide chess community where anybody from anywhere can come to discuss anything they want about chess."[3] Many educational items are updated daily, including the Daily Puzzle, Game of the Day, Player of the Day, Opening of the Day, and Quote of the Day. Chessgames began as a chess learning site and now has a Playing Zone for real-time play. In 2005, enhanced software allowed members to embed chess diagrams in their messages, which can significantly help discuss a particular position or potential variation.

The Chessgames.com database can be searched by player, year, opening, ECO code and result.[23][24] Members can create Game Collections to store hundreds of database games by any desired category, such as opening, endgame, tactic, player, or tournament. The site's kibitzing may be searched by keyword for all messages to locate previous posts and find specific information. There are more than 4 million posts.[1]

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