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Subject: Re: ICC & FICS & Chessbase-servers games

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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