PGN Library
More than 4000 annotated chess games in PGN format
A lot of people places annotated chess games on the Web, but unfortunately there
is a wide variety of formats, more or less resembling the
standard PGN format,
with proprietary variations.
It is quite difficult to process automatically those games.
I have downloaded in several years all the annotated games I was able
to find, and, while browsing them with ChessVU, I have tried to transform the
original text files into more portable PGN files.
It was not an easy task. ChessVU was useful to help me checking the final
correctness, and at the same time I relaxed the rules used by
ChessVU, to allow
as far as possible direct processing of the files as they are (the ideal would
be for ChessVU to be so smart to understand all the irregularities).
I want to share the result of my work, because most of the games are really
precious. I hope the original annotators will forgive me for using their
comments, in the interest of all chess fans, that will be able to enjoy the
games, using ChessVU
(FREEWARE) or other viewers.
Here are the zipped files. Were possible I add a general comment and the link of
the original source, whom I am grateful.
Corus Wijk an Zee 2003 - 91 games
Anand wins 8.5/13, Judit Polgar is second 8/13.
Corus Wijk an Zee 2004 - 91 games
Anand wins 8.5/13, Leko and Adams follow 8/13.
Middle game lessons - 481 games
Beautiful collection of thematic games on chess strategy and styles
Russian games - 23 games
Deeply annotated games by russian GMs like Svidler, Sakaev, Ivanov, Aseev, Ionov
Russian Chess - GM Laboratory
Thomas Hartwig - 29 games
Games of various level, annotated by Thomas Hartwig
http://www.geocities.com/pawn_48125/reference.html
Immortal games - 36 games
The best of chess, games from world champions
Exeter lessons from Tal - 8 games
Games from Tal, annotated by DrDave
Exeter Chess Club-
Lessons From Mikhail Tal
David Hayes - 9 games
Games of various level, annotated by David Hayes
Eric Schiller - 8 games
Games annotated by the author
Koltanowski - 14 games
George Koltanowski games, some annotated by Eric Schiller
Kramnik - 40 games
Annotated games from Kramnik
http://www.geocities.com/akap8/chess.htm
Polgar - 40 games
Annotated games from Judit Polgar
http://www.geocities.com/akap8/chess.htm
NewYork 1924 - 110 games
The famous tournament, annotated for beginners by
Battle Royale
Linares 2001 - 30 games
Some annotated games (Kasparov wins 7.5/10), by John Henderson
Linares 2002 - 42 games
Deeply annotated tournament (Kasparov wins 8/12), by Mark Hathaway
Bali 2002 - 16 games
Selected games (J.Polgar and others), by Mark Hathaway
Top games - 28 games
Annotated games from top level tournaments, by Mark Hathaway
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~hathawa2/chess/
Perle - 118 games
Pearls from chess history, annotated in English, Italian and Spanish
http://www.gambitchess.com/antiques.htm
Famous games - 500 games
Famous games from chess history
Match Ponomariov-Kortchnoi 2001 - 8 games
Games annotated by IM E.Miroshnichenko, IM O.Berezin
http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchive/match01p.htm
Kasparov-Topalov - 62 different analysis
The game of the century ?
Human_computer - 29 games
Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik etc. playing computers
SCCA - 75 games
Correspondence chess (some games very deeply analysed - game 75 has almost 2000
moves!)
http://www.scottishcca.co.uk/gameindex.htm
Cambridge Springs 1904 - 20 games
Tornament (Marshall wins 13/15) by Jan van Reek
http://www.endgame.nl/CSpr1904.htm
World matches - 580 games
World matches, from Giovanni Leonardo to Deep Fritz, by Jan van Reek
moskow64 - 42 games
Zonal tournament, Moscow 1964, Spasski wins 7/12, by Jan van Reek
http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/
electronic_campfire - 6 games
Najdorf and others 1890-1930, by Tim McGrew
The Electronic Campfire
Scarborough 2001 - 380 games
GBR-ch tournament, (J.G.Gallagher wins 8/11) annotated by Andrew Martin
D00 Opening - 103 games
Sample games from Chess Informant (free, to be used with Informant Reader)
Romero - 4 games
Games from FIDE Wch KO 2001, by GM Alfonso Romero Holmes
GM games - 20 games
Games annotated by GMs
Semicomm - 46 games
Annotated games of various source
Great masters - 13 games
13 games from Steinitz to Tal
http://www.chesstrainer.com/Classics.htm
KK - 2 games
2 annotated games from Kasparov - Karpov matches
VC_89_99 - 73 games
annotated games from VC
VC_2000 - 58 games
annotated games from VC
VC_2001 - 40 games
annotated games from VC
http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchive/vc_2002.htm
Chess_doctor
- 54 + 2 games
Chessdoctor Annotated Games
(analyzed by National Master Corey Russell)
Europe echecs - 307 games
annotated games (in French, by G. Bertola) from
www.europe-echecs.com
