Grand07.pgn available

[Norm Pollock]

I have made available my collection of long time-control human games from 1999-2006. It is suitable for building opening books as well as being a valuable collection of games of this era.

Grand07.pgn is a filtered collection with players having at least a 2300 elo. All the games were played from 1999-2006. There are 169K games in pgn format.

Filtered out were games with 25 moves or less, Internet games, Computer games, simultaneous games, exhibition games, blindfold games, short and medium time-control games, etc.

The games are organized by opening. The game tags are organized in a standardized way. The moves do not wrap around.

This pgn collection is suitable for making a neutral type of engine opening book. There is a wide variety of openings.

The book is available at Jim Ablett's Winboard Chess Projects

http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

There is also a direct download link at

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/ten/z/Grand07.rar

-Norm

edit: I forgot to add that duplicate games were removed and that the download is 31M.

[Norm Pollock]

I split the 31M file by ECO values for the benefit of those with dialup

http://www.eggdisk.com/files/277101_0rq7g/Grand07A.rar
http://www.eggdisk.com/files/277102_jhhzq/Grand07B.rar
http://www.eggdisk.com/files/277103_hjvte/Grand07C.rar
http://www.eggdisk.com/files/277104_jj0fw/Grand07D.rar
http://www.eggdisk.com/files/277105_dvtcd/Grand07E.rar

[Norm Pollock]

There is an update to Grand07.pgn now available at Jim Ablett's site:

http://homepages.tesco.net/henry.ablett/jims.html

I had to remove some games (8k) that I thought I had filtered out, but which were still there. There are 161k games now.

direct link:

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/ten/z/Grand07.rar

-Norm