Category: Database

From the old Rusbase site, which is a revision of the older Rusbase site. As has been said elsewhere (I believe) this is the best I can get, in that many of their links point to 404s. However, if you ever want to know the secret to getting these files, it’s this: if you use a link grabber, or what have you, to suck up all the URLs on the site, you’ll get a few strays, and then about 5,000 good URLs. Just change .html to .zip, put those into a download manager, and you’ll get about 3,500 ZIPs, and about 1,500 404s. Those really do point to nothing, so the system works. It’s that the site owner apparently is as neat with their files as I am, having named every ZIP and every HTML file consistently. 🙂

141,566 games (with evaluations, openings, plycount, and beauty scores):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4snr0cu4kpyi7se/rusbase-250118.zip/file

34,005 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/1qc8edat1gahfgt/chess-tournaments-2024-05.pgn/file

This is combined from TWIC, Chesscom Events, and Chess Results:
https://theweekinchess.com/twic
https://www.chess.com/events/results
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.aspx?lan=1

Doubles and non-standard games are removed. Everything here qualifies in ChessBase as a strong game, i.e. at least 10 moves, and with ratings 2300+. Openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations are added.

All 24,570 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/no462ixnebsj9c6/chess-tournaments-2024-12.pgn/file

This is combined from TWIC, Chesscom Events, and Chess Results:
https://theweekinchess.com/twic
https://www.chess.com/events/results
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.aspx?lan=1

Doubles and non-standard games are removed. Everything here qualifies in ChessBase as a strong game, i.e. at least 10 moves, and with ratings 2300+. Openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations are added.

Having used a Python script to make a list of player names from the Online Superelite DB, I then used another script to attempt to download the Nov. 2020 games from each of those players, ending up with about 2,000 PGNs. After running them through pgn-extract with the same filters used for the rest of the Online Superelite DB, this was the result. These games have players rated at least 2500. Games are between 20-150 moves, and end in checkmate. Doubles, bullet games, and non-standard games have been removed.

5,875 games (with evaluations and openings):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rvqcqq8sbw5o1gw/chesscom-superelite-2020-11.pgn/file

This is a combination of the Chesscom Elite db (which covers 2020-12 to 2024-12) and the Lichess Elite db (which covers 2013-01 to 2024-12).

Covers 2014-12 to 2024-12. Every game has players rated at least 2500, the games are between 20-150 moves, and they end in checkmate. Doubles, bullet games and non-standard games have been removed. Openings, plycount and evaluations have been added in.

1,829,705 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nev27dqeqjnqtbg/online-superelite-240109.zip/file

These are just like the previous set of engine games, in that no player is rated below 2300, and no game has less than 10 moves or more than 150. Each game also has a high-enough beauty score in ChessBase that it has three out of three medals. This represents about 2% of the original database. All games have opening tags, ply count, beauty scores, evaluations, and novelty annotations.

All 45,074 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/colmw3dj6wgxtvn/artemis-ccrl-4015.pgn/file

“Artemis” games are games that are considered strong (2300+ and 10+ moves) and most beautiful (meaning three medals for beauty in ChessBase 17 or 18). These are the engine games that I ran for the FDRL (the Fixed Depth Rating List) and the CERL (the Chess Engine Rating List). Games have openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations.

All 25,647 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/536s0dvuv2698kp/artemis-chess-nerd.pgn/file

All 20,669 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/mf688hcfutg460g/chess-tournaments-2024-06.pgn/file

This is combined from TWIC, Chesscom Events, and Chess Results:
https://theweekinchess.com/twic
https://www.chess.com/events/results
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.aspx?lan=1

Doubles and non-standard games are removed. Everything here qualifies in ChessBase as a strong game, i.e. at least 10 moves, and with ratings 2300+. Openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations are added.

All 20,198 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/s7vp113612yhnct/chess-tournaments-2024-09.pgn/file

This is combined from TWIC, Chesscom Events, and Chess Results:
https://theweekinchess.com/twic
https://www.chess.com/events/results
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.aspx?lan=1

Doubles and non-standard games are removed. Everything here qualifies in ChessBase as a strong game, i.e. at least 10 moves, and with ratings 2300+. Openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations are added.

All 18,324 games:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/7tiyloxt2uxra3m/chess-tournaments-2024-11.pgn/file

This is combined from TWIC, Chesscom Events, and Chess Results:
https://theweekinchess.com/twic
https://www.chess.com/events/results
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.aspx?lan=1

Doubles and non-standard games are removed. Everything here qualifies in ChessBase as a strong game, i.e. at least 10 moves, and with ratings 2300+. Openings, evaluations, beauty scores, and novelty annotations are added.