Author: margolies,marc
Date: 23:05:49 11/04/03
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the software application is scriptable and also an ICC client capable of loading and saving games. I recently saw an article listing the ICC account names of top Grandmasters on a russian language web page, maybe chessexpress.ru ? I believe that we can bot this game collecting process if we want to. On November 04, 2003 at 12:39:54, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On November 02, 2003 at 10:55:53, Jerry Gullstrand wrote: > >>Someone knows where to download games played on the servers? > >George already explained, how you can download the games on ICC manually. > >Dann Corbits game collection has almost 40000 ICC games. With something like >Scid (or probably any other chess database) you should be able to filter them >out (from the over 3 million games there altogether). I came to the number of >40000 by just doing "grep -w ICC dchuge.pgn | wc". dchuge.pgn is the pgn-file, >into which I copied together all the a00.pgn to e99.pgn. The games can be found >at ftp://cap.connx.com in the directories a-openinings, b-openings, ..., >e-openings. IIRC, there are some readme files, which may help to understand how >to uncompress the files. > >I have found no easy and convinient way, to download many games from ICC in a >(semi)-automatic fashion. Perhaps you could ask an administrator. > >Dann's database also includes a few thousand FICS games. > >Regards, >Dieter
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