Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:36:59 02/01/01
What is Junkbase for SCID? It is a collection of a very large number of games
gathered from public sources, cleaned, duplicate filtered, and put into SCID
format. The SCID database files are compressed with bzip so that they are very
small compared even to a zip file.
Here are the data files for over 2 million PGN games in SCID format:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/junkbase.sg.bz
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/junkbase.si.bz
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/junkbase.sn.bz
Here is bzip, in case you don't have that to decompress them:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/bzip.exe
Compressed, they are this size:
01/30/2001 03:31p 131,824,621 junkbase.sg.bz
01/30/2001 03:36p 50,660,956 junkbase.si.bz
01/30/2001 03:31p 3,734,485 junkbase.sn.bz
3 File(s) 186,220,062 bytes
Decompressed, they are this size:
01/30/2001 03:31p 276,177,816 junkbase.sg
01/30/2001 03:36p 92,161,199 junkbase.si
01/30/2001 03:31p 6,821,325 junkbase.sn
3 File(s) 375,160,340 bytes
The raw PGN file was this size:
01/26/2001 08:47p 1,584,017,928 junkbase.pgn
Now, before you run off and get them, some warnings:
1. You have to have SCID installed. It's anything but trivial because it
requires TCL/TK, which is a pain to install if you're not a techie.
2. These games are gathered from a bazillion public sources, and so the name
fits. Do not expect the sparkling quality of a commercial database
3. I don't support this stuff. It's a free present for anyone who wants it but
I will definitely ignore any emails you send asking questions about it.
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