For those serious students of chess who are ready to take chess to the next level you need to dowload a free copy of Chessbase Lite here, or if you got the cash, buy yourself a version of the full version of Chessbase 8 here. Once you have your chess viewer, and the links below, it is off to the races with millions of games. Up until these web sites came along you use to have to buy your games from Chessbase for hundreds of dollars. A few enterprising chess webmasters figured out that since chess games are not copyrightable you can publish them, and they published millions of them! And they did this for the good of humanity and for the good of chess...what good guys chessplayers can be! There is enough material below to keep you busy for 8 lifetimes...so have fun chess players!

Large Databases

Homepage:
http://chessclinic.kalandor.hu/
Directly to Download page:
http://chessclinic.kalandor.hu/kodok3.html
Information:
A database with more than 3,000,000 games, sorted by ECO-code.


Homepage:
http://www.logicalchess.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.logicalchess.com/resources/openings/pgndb/index.html
Information:
A database with more than 3,000,000 games, sorted by ECO-code.

Homepage:
http://www.homestead.com/observer/Openings.html
Directly to Download page:
http://www.homestead.com/observer/Openings.html
Information:
A database with more than 2,600,000 different games, sorted by ECO-code.


Homepage:
http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/freefileshtml/freefiles.htm
Information:
A database with more than 2,500,000 games played up to1999, sorted by ECO-code.


Homepage:
http://www.chesscollect.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chesscollect.com/PGNDownloads.html
Information:
About 500,000 games by decade or year.

Searchable Databases

Homepage:
http://www.chesslab.com/default.asp
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html
Information:
About 2,000,000 java-based searchable games with the ability to download them.

Homepage:
http://www.chessgames.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chessgames.com/
Information:
Online database with the function of downloading a single game at a time.


Homepage:
http://www.chessbase.com
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chesslive.de
Information:
ChessBase online database, also has pgn-view function (download the games manually).

Homepage:
http://www.newinchess.com
Directly to Download page:
http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/Default.aspx?PageID=400
Information:
Nic-Base online database, download games one by one.

Periodical Game Collections

Homepage:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twicp.html
Information:
The Week in Chess (TWIC) / Mark Crowther:
"The Original": Games from current tournaments.

Homepage:
http://www.chess-international.de
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chess-international.de/download/partien.htm
Information:
Chess-International - Montagspartien / Norbert Lukas:
Games from current tournaments.



Homepage:
http://www.convekta.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.convekta.com/databases.asp
Information:
Games from current tournaments.

Homepage:
http://www.ajedrez-de-estilo.com.ar/ade/index.htm
Directly to Download page:
http://www.ajedrez-de-estilo.com.ar/ade/pg/index.htmlInformation:
Ajedrez de Estilo / Adolfo Bórmida:
Games from current tournaments.

Homepage:
http://www.lesechecs.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.lesechecs.com/cgi-bin/journal.cgi?folder=week
Information:
Les Echecs / Renaud Boutoute:
Games from current tournaments.

Homepage:
http://www.chessmix.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chessmix.com/10days.php
Information:
Games from current tournaments.

Openings
Homepage:
http://www.chessville.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.chessville.com/downloads/downloads_games_opening.htm
Information:
Games sorted by opening.


Homepage:
http://www.mychesssite.net/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.mychesssite.net/php55/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=2
Information:
An openings collection.

Homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/bekemann/
Directly to Download page:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Bekemann/download.htm
Information:
Mostly Gambit Games originating from the books of Uwe Bekemann (hasn't been updated since 2001).

Historical Chess

Homepage:
http://www.gambitchess.com/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.gambitchess.com/antiques.htm
Information:
Historical chess: events and players.

Homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/oldinchess/index.htm
Directly to Download page:
http://www.geocities.com/oldinchess/index.htm
Information:
Databases mostly '70, sorted by year, country, player and opening.

Computer Chess

Homepage:
http://www.amateurschach.de/
Directly to Download page:
http://www.amateurschach.de/directory/tournaments.htm
Information:
Computer chess tournaments.