LINK COLLECTION TO CHESS GAMES AROUND THE INTERNET WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FOR FREE

welcome to millions of chessgames (pgn, cbf, cbh, cbv, nic, si3, ...) around the internet which you can download for free (no fees, no registration, just click and download). Below you find links to free downloadable chessgames at the internet I have found since 1997. You can get chess of the best players in the world as well as open tournaments and chess of lower level. You will find large databases with millions of different games as well as small archives. You will find current chess activity as well as historical chess. You will find classical chess, correspondence chess, computer chess, annotated games and lots more!

I have sorted the links by topic or by region/country in alphabetical order (it is important for me where the most games or the most interesting games at one page are from) and I give you some information about them.
Below you find a worldwide list with links to games from all over the world and a national list with links to games from specific countries. These two lists are categorized again. If you want to jump quickly to a category please use the following quick-links No. I and No. II below the next information-sections, otherwise please scroll.

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You will find thousands of tournaments and millions of different games of every level, of every year, of every region, of every kind of tournament,...

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211005-o

Download-page / download-overview:
http://cap.connx.com (offline at the moment)

Information:
Chess Analysis Project / Dann Corbit:
A database with several million games, pgn-files sorted by ECO-code A00-E99. Regularly updated.

15.04.07
Base15, Human Chess, CC

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.icofy.net/

Information:
ICOfY.NET / Ingo Schwarz:
A database with about 3 000 000 games in pgn-format.
Regularly updated.

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/download.html

Information:
Jose Chess / Peter Schäfer:
About 2 000 000 games in Jose-format.

211005-o

Download-page / download-overview:
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/
(search for the hyatt-folder, and have a look at enourmous.zip)

Information:
Robert Hyatt:
A database with about 1 500 000 games played until 1999, one large pgn-file.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessopeningspgn.com/chess/Openings.html

Information:
Bookup and Encyclopedia of Chess Openings / Mike Leahy:
A database with more than one million games, pgn-files sorted by ECO-code A00-E99.
Games update period unknown (main page regularly updated).

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm

Information:
Rebel / Ed Schroeder:
1 million quality chess games in PGN format (and information about computer chess).
Games last updated in 1999 (main page regularly updated).

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.schachakademie.com/download/
download_von_unterschiedlichen_schacheroeffnungen.htm

Information:
Schachakademie Holger Möller / Holger Möller:
A database with pgn-files sorted by ECO-code A00-E99.
Games last updated in 2000 (main page regularly updated).

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://chessnostalgia.com/PGNDownloads.html

Information:
ChessNostalgia (formerly known as ChessCollect) / Dusan Stamenkovic:
A database with more than 900 000 games, pgn-files sorted by decade or year.
Downloads sporadically updated.

15.04.07

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.supreme-chess.com/chess-game-collection-a.html

Information:
Supreme Chess / Darrin Swain:
About 500 000 games in pgn-format, sorted by ECO (and resources especially for chess beginners).
Games update period unknown (main page regularly updated).

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Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html

Information:
Chess Lab:
About 2 000 000 java-based searchable games with download-function. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.gensunasumus.com/

Information:
GensUnaSumus / Predrag Lazarevic, Velimir Djordjevic:
About 800 000 java-based searchable games with download-function.
Database updated every 10th day.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://chess-results.com/

Information:
chess-results.com / Heinz Herzog:
Online database with games-download. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessgames.com/

Information:
Chessgames.com / Daniel Freeman:
Online database with single game download. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chesslive.de

Information:
ChessBase:
ChessBase online database with pgn-view function (download the games manually). Regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://www.newinchess.com

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/Default.aspx?PageID=400

Information:
Nic-Base:
Nic-Base online database with single game download. Regularly updated.

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150407
CBc-w

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twicp.html

Information:
The Week in Chess (TWIC) / Mark Crowther:
"The Original": Games from current tournaments, weekly updated.

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.messaggeroscacchi.it/archivio/index.html

Information:
Messaggero Scacchi:
Games from current tournaments in pgn, weekly updated.

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.convekta.com/databases.asp

Information:
Convekta:
Games from current tournaments (and goods for chess players from the Convekta Chess
Shop Web Store.
Games are weekly updated (shop is daily updated).

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cb-w

Main-page:
http://www.newinchess.com

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.newinchess.com

Information:
Nic-Base:
Download section (NIC Magazine, NIC Yearbook); regularly updated.

080405
CBV,
nicht
mehr da

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessmix.com/10days.php

Information:
10days / Ventzislav Inkiov:
Games from current tournaments, 3 times in a month updated. The latest file is free.

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lieber archive

Main-page:
http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/

Information:
Ajadrez en Madrid / Lusi Maseda:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, normally with games. Regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://www.ruschess.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.ruschess.com/
http://www.ruschess.com/Archive/main.php

Information:
Russian Chess / Ilya Manakov:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, normally with games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chess-international.de/ticker/

Information:
Chess-International / Norbert Lukas:
Information about and links to current tournaments all around the world, often with games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.thechessoracle.com

Information:
The Chess Oracle / John Sharp:
World chess news, often with games.
Games (and page) regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.sachovespravy.szm.sk/

Information:
Peter Mego:
Information about current tournaments, often with games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chess.gr/

Information:
Hellas Chess Club:
Information about current tournaments, often with games. Regularly updated.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://TeleSchach.com/aktuelles/

Information:
Teleschach / Gerhard Hund:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, sometimes with games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessib.com/news.html

Information:
Chess Siberia / Boris Schipkov:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, sometimes with games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.europe-echecs.com/

Information:
Europe Echecs:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, sometimes with games. Regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://www.pakchess.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.pakchess.com/

Information:
Pakistan Chess Player / Abdul Karim:
Information about current tournaments all around the world, sometimes with games. Regularly updated.

170305

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessgate.de/

Information:
Chessgate:
Information about and links to current tournaments all around the world, sometimes with games.

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221005
mit Lücken
150407Europ

Main-page:
http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/torneos/listapartidas.asp

Information:
Ajadrez en Madrid / Lusi Maseda:
Single tournaments, sorted by continent. Regularly updated, but especially older files sometimes do not work.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.schackcentralen.com/b.asp

Information:
Chess Central / Zeljko Peter Kartal:
Tournaments sorted by year; mainly mirrows the files from Pittsburgh (ftp.pitt.edu).

131102

Main-page:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess

Download-page / download-overview:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/PGN/Events

Information:
University of Pittsburgh:
One of the first internet resources: Single tournament files, not updated since 2000.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://agnum.unixcab.org/?ID=2

Information:
Chess Log:
Collection of important tournaments from 1980 up to present (and more information about international tournaments).
Page and games last updated in May 2005.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.schachlinks.com/cgi-bin/admin/action-partien.html

Information:
schachlinks.com:
Collection of current tournaments (and chess-links, tournament information, and much more).
Pages and games regularly updated.

150407

Download-page / download-overview:
http://garri.wz.cz/htm1/download.php

Information:
J. Sula:
Collection of important tournaments; last updated in 2006.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.olimpbase.org/

Information:
Olimp Base / Wojciech Bartelski:
History of Chess Olympiads.

nix

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-indx.htm

Information:
Mark Weeks:
World-championships with games. Regularly updated.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.schachundmuenzen.de/shop/shop_dls.php?VID=f9o8H2bX4cQ8DGHN

Information:
Schach & Eurokursmünzen / Firma Fruth:
Various tournaments.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://amchesscoaching.com/Download/downloads_page.htm

Information:
The American Chess Coaching Company / Leopold Lacrimosa:
Various tournaments (and more information from chess coach Leopold Lacrimosa).
Games and information regularly updated.

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070405

Main-page:
http://www.chessville.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessville.com/downloads/downloads_games_player.htm

Information:
Chessville / David Surratt:
Games sorted by player.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chess-poster.com/english/pgn/pgn_files.htm

Information:
chess-poster:
Games from famous chess-players.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.erk.dk/skak_spillere.jsp

Information:
ERK / Erik David Johnson:
Games from famous chess-players.

070405

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chesszone.net.ru/bases/player/player.html

Information:
Chess Zone / Roman Vilyavin:
Games from famous chess-players.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.phileo.demon.co.uk/

Information:
Uncrowned Kings / Phil Hughes:
Games from famous chess-players (Keres, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Larsen, Korchnoi ...). Sporadically updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.schachtherapeut.de/partien/partien.htm

Information:
Der Schachtherapeut / Manfed Herbold:
Different collections of famous and not that famous players.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://chessproblem.my-free-games.com/chess/games/Download-PGN.php

Information:
Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day / Bruno Berenguer:
Grandmaster games in PGN (and also free chess problems, chess news...)
Games regularly updated, chess problems daily updated.

221102

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.thechessdrum.net/gamelibrary.html

Information:
The Chess Drum / Daaim Shabazz:
News about and games of Black chessplayers. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://strony.aster.pl/morphy/pliki.html

Information:
Szymon Grygiel:
Murphy games.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.bobby-fischer.net/

Information:
Chuck Ayoub:
Fischer games.

131102

Main-page:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/
(then group, then chess)

Download-page / download-overview:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/PGN/Players

Information:
University of Pittsburgh:
One of the first internet resources: Player files, not updated since 2000.

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Main-page:
http://chess.at-krays.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://chess.at-krays.com/

Information:
At-Kray's Chess Database:
Generates downloadable opening files out of a database with several million games.
Regularly updated.
Sometimes this page is temporarily unavailable.

1102

Main-page:
http://www.chessville.com/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.chessville.com/downloads/downloads_games_opening.htm

Information:
Chessville / David Surratt:
Games sorted by opening.

131102

Main-page:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/
(then group, then chess)

Download-page / download-overview:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/chess/PGN/Openings

Information:
University of Pittsburgh:
One of the first internet resources: Games sorted by opening, not updated since 2000.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://jeanpaul.garnier.free.fr/htm/baseen.htm

Information:
Everything about Petrov / Jean Paul Garnier:
Games from the Petrov opening (and more information about that opening).
Downloads and pages regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://nestore.mysteria.cz/database.htm

Information:
The World of Grob's Attack / Frantisek Brokes:
Games of the Grob opening (1.g4) (and more information about the Grob opening).
Page and downloads regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.rochadekuppenheim.de/herbie/training/owen/index.htm

Information:
Chess club Rochade Kuppenheim - Herbies Eröffnungstheorie / Christof Herbrechtsmeier:
Games - some annotated - from the Owen (1.e4 -b6) opening (and much more information about the chess club).
Games last updated in 2004 (main page regularly updated).

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Download-page / download-overview:
http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/tablebases-online

Information:
Kirill Kryukov:
Personal homepage of Kirill Kryukov, who starts a community of Nalimov tablebase-collectors to make them available for everyone for free. You do not directly find the files, but links to them.
Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/

Information:
Robert Hyatt:
Nalimov endgame tablebases.

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Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.gambitchess.com/antiques.htm

Information:
Franco Pezzi, Roberto Carosi, Giorgio Ruggeri Laderchi:
Historical chess: events and players. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/chess.html

Information:
Chess Tournament and chess history / Glenn Giffen:
Some historical games.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.geocities.com/oldinchess/index.htm

Information:
Old in Chess / Oscar A. Zaiko:
Databases mostly '70, sorted by year, country, player and opening.

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221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://gamesarchive.iccf.com/

Information:
The International Correspondence Chess Federation:
The ICCF On-Line Game Archive. Regularly updated.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.cceurope.de/games.htm

Information:
The International Correspondence Chess Federation / Europe:
Correspondence-chess in Europe. Not updated since 2004.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.iccfus.com/index.htm

Information:
The International Correspondence Chess Federation / US and North American-Pacific Zone:
The ICCF-US and NAPZ Games Archive. Regularly updated.

22-100

Download-page / download-overview:
http://ccn.ajec-echecs.org/full.html

Information:
Correspondence Chess News / John C. Knudsen:
Periodical correspondence chess games collections
29.10.2000 - 09.11.2003, not longer updated.

191203

Download-page / download-overview:
http://members.chello.nl/j.vanderkooij1/games.htm

Information:
Schaak! / Jaap van der Kooij:
Collection of correspondence-chessgames. Regularly updated.

221005

Download-page / download-overviev:
http://home.arcor.de/chessinfriendship/jv/games.html

Information:
Chess in friendship (CIF) / Jörg Vollbrecht:
CIF games archive (and more information about CIF-correspondence chess).
Games and page regularly updated.

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221005w

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.michael-waesch.de/trade/downloadall.htm

Information:
The Engine Game Heaven / Michael Wäsch:
More than 1 000 000 engine games, regularly updated.

221005

Download-page / download-overview:
http://glareanverlag.wordpress.com/category/die-computerschach-datenbank/

Information:
Schach im Glarean Magazin / Walter Eigenmann:
Walter Eigenmann’s computer chess database COMP2007 with more than 670 000 engine games (and lot of more information).
Download and page regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm

Information:
Rebel / Ed Schroeder:
Different computer chess games collections (and information about computer chess).
Games and main page regularly updated.

221005

Main-page:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/history.htm

Information:
WBEC Ridderkerk / Leo Dijksman:
Engine tournament games (and more information about chess engines).
Regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://www.pcschach.de/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.pcschach.de/Texte/Download.html

Information:
Computerschach Corner / Gerhard Sonnabend:
Engine tournament games (and more information about chess engines).
Games and page regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://aloheac.club.fr/index.htm

Download-page / download-overview:
http://aloheac.club.fr/index.htm

Information:
Arnaud's Computer Chess Corner / Arnaud Lohéac:
Engine tournament games (and more computer chess information).
Regularly updated.

020104

Main-page:
http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/winboard.htm

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/winboard.htm

Information:
Georg Lyapko:
Engine tournaments, regularly updated.

Main-page:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/lefouduroi/computerchess.htm

Download-page / download-overview:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/lefouduroi/archives/archives.htm

Information:
Patrick Buchmann:
Engine tournament games (and more information about engine chess).
Games and page regularly updated.

020104

Main-page:
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/downloads.htm

Information:
Heinz van Kempen:
Engine tournaments with Nunn positions, regularly updated.

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221102

Download-page / download-overview:
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/

Information:
Annotated chess-databases / Jan van Reek:
Annotated classical match-games. Regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://www.angelfire.com/games3/smartbridge/

Information:
About 4000 annotated games from various tournaments, regularly updated.

Download-page / download-overview:
http://doprimel.club.fr/analyse.htm

Information:
Chess clubs Pont-Chinois (FSGT) and Issy Les Moulineaux (FFE) /
Dominique Primel:
Annotated games from various tournaments, regularly updated.