PGN Downloads

Lc0 Games

These are match games organized by month, and training games organized by test run and by day.

Tags added for player, rating, event, site, event date, date, ECO, opening, beauty and PlyCount. All 960 games removed.

Lc0MG 2022-12 — 2,560,642 games | 2.41 GB PGN | 445 MB 7z

Lc0MG 2023-01 — 1,907,622 games | 1.80 GB PGN | 346 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-01 — 513,567 games | 490 MB PGN | 99 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-02 — 609,065 games | 581 MB PGN | 117 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-03 — 610,590 games | 583 MB PGN | 117 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-04 — 559,167 games | 499 MB PGN | 102 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-05 — 536,930 games | 482 MB PGN | 100 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-06 — 508,590 games | 455 MB PGN | 95 MB 7z

T60 2022-01-07 — 509,587 games | 456 MB PGN | 95 MB 7z


FGRL Games

Every database from the Fast GMs Rating List combined. Tags added for rating, opening, and beauty. Unannotated. Doubles removed.

FGRL Games — 1,738,234 games | 2.04 GB PGN | 445 MB 7z


CEDR Games

The full database for the Chess Engines Diary website. 2009-2023. Unannotated. Doubles removed.

CEDR Games — 416,724 games | 392 MB PGN | 78 MB 7z


Lichess Bot Games

CvC and CvH. Includes 26 different high-rated bots, as downloaded 2023-03-12. Filtered to include only 2000+ games with 10+ moves. No bullet games or variants. Doubles removed.

Lichess Bot DB — 162,278 games | 180 MB PGN | 33 MB 7z


FICS Games

All human v human, computer v computer, and computer v human games available at FICS, filtered to 2000+ and 10+ moves.

FICS HvH — 7,513,735 games | 6.12 GB PGN | 1.05 GB 7z

FICS CvC — 914,770 games | 0.99 GB PGN | 193 MB 7z

FICS CvH — 568,628 games | 487 MB PGN | 80 MB 7z


Lichess Elite

Games from the Lichess Elite DB, but filtered to 2500+ and 10+ moves.

2014-2019 — 206,951 games | 174 MB PGN | 30.3 MB 7z

2020 — 632,090 games | 555 MB PGN | 97 MB 7z

2021 — 1,760,777 games | 1.53 GB PGN | 278 MB 7z

2022 — 2,073,510 games | 1.82 GB PGN | 333 MB 7z


Chesscom Elite

A project undertaken by an anonymous internet user, via the Chesscom Published Data API, filtered here to include only 2500+ games with 10+ moves. The entire project begins halfway through 2021, but all I have is 2022-01 to 2022-11.

Chesscom Elite — 1,030,177 games | 1.08 GB PGN | 186 MB 7z


Elegance

Games considered by ChessBase 17 to be both “strong” and “most beautiful”.

Strong games seem to filter on at least 2400 and at least 10 moves. Beauty score is determined according to interesting play, such as sacrifices, and is given between zero and three “medals”. Most beautiful games are those with three medals.

Sources are Playchess, Playchess Infinity, CCRL, CEGT, FGRL, FICS, JCER, the Gladiators DB, and the Lc0 games posted here.

Elegance DB — 270,693 games | 266 MB PGN | 46 MB 7z