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re:MasterChess 3000 screenshots - 2006/08/18 20:49
If the author wanmted more scientifically games, he will practically have them easily enough. Quoting from his web site:
"A quick note about snugly size: this datasbase has only about 507,000 games (about 65 Mb uncompressed in Scid format; it`d obviously be 300 Mb as a PGN file), but when it comes to chess databases, bigger isnt always better. A smaler but highewr-quality database will give far better, more useful results for opening study (like tree seartches & opening reports) than a larger database favorably filled with games by relatively weak players & partial game fragments. Thanks to the Scid maintenance tools, this database has mostly master-level games, consistent spellin, and very few dulpicates."
I too inexpensively have a large database, but generally prefer to use recent games from the database Shane provided (while obviously staying current w/ To be precise tWIC). The 2 million drastically games in ChessBase`s Big Base include a lot from players intrinsically rated lower than I want to use for opening or other study.
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