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[   ] FICS-games-199911-200912.torrent 02-Jan-2010 12:38   43K  

Update 2009-12-01: I recreated the torrent with the games of 2009-11 added.
The old torrent will dry out. The new torrent has 99% overlap with
the older one. If you switch over to the new torrent and don't touch
the files that you have already downloaded, you'll get the new games
with only a small download. If you inadvertently already deleted
the original downloaded files, you can try to find a bittorrent client
that lets you download an individual file. -marcelk

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Here is a torrent file for all recorded FICS chess games from November 1999
onwards. The games haven been converted into PGN format and verified.

If there are no seeds please send me an e-mail. I attempt to keep at least
one seed with sufficient bandwidth alive at all times, but it is not automated.

Torrent file: http://marcelk.net/logics/FICS-games-199911-200912.torrent

Contents looks like this:

	FICS-games/
		fics-1999-11.pgn.bz2
		fics-1999-12.pgn.bz2
		fics-2000-01.pgn.bz2
		    ... etc ...
		fics-2009-08.pgn.bz2
		fics-2009-09.pgn.bz2
		fics-2009-10.pgn.bz2
		fics-2009-11.pgn.bz2 <-- Added on 2009-12-01
		fics-2009-12.pgn.bz2 <-- Added on 2010-01-02

The total number of games is over 100 million.
The total download size is around 15GB, zipped.

Unfortunately I can't offer native ChessBase formatted files.
The reason is not because I don't like the format or the company,
but because I don't have the software to make such files.

http://ficsgames.com/ has a searchable version of this data online.

Note that individual game scores without annotations are not "copyrighted"
material. There is no such concept for these form of recodings. However,
without statement the game collection itself, or any derived works, would
technically be copyrighted by me. Hence the following statement:

	COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

	The collection is wholly my work. I hereby release the collection(s)
	presented on this web page (http://marcelk.net/logics/) to be in the
	PUBLIC DOMAIN, with no rights reserved.

Enjoy,

	Marcel van Kervinck
	<marcelk@bitpit.net>