América-Base - Games from (mostly) Central and South America, with a dash of North America thrown in. Sorted by country.
Anatoly Karpov database - Over 3000 games from one of the original Big K's.
ARG-Base - Games from Argentina.
Australian Archive (Ozbase) - Games from Australia.
Britbase - British game archive, 1930-Present. Huge.
Canadian Database - Games from Canadian tournaments and Canadian players.
Chess Archaeology - Excavating the history of chess. Articles, annotated historical games, photographs, and more. Updated regularly.
Chessbase-Online - Game database online searchable with Java interface. Similar to Chesslab, faster but with less features.
Chesslab - Sites like this make you appreciate the power of the internet. 2 million game searchable database online with Java interface. Also has analysis capability, and is updated constantly.
Chess Mail - Correspondence games from Chess Mail magazine. Selection changes every month. Usually the collections are centered around specific themes.
DanBase - Games from Denmark.
DutchBase - Games from the Netherlands going back 100 hundred years. (scroll to Dutchbase link)
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - An easy interface to the openings collection on Dann Corbit's FTP server (see above).
Finnish Chess Games Database - Games from Finland.
GambitChess - Gambits analyzed, plus games from chess books.
GreekBase - Games from Greece.
ItalBase- Games from Italy.
Kasparov vs. Karpov: World Championship 1984-1990 - Some details and the games from their grueling matches.
Knut Neven's Research Database - Knut has created a huge, high-quality game collection in Chessbase format for sale on CD with regular updates.
Lars Balzer - Links to game collections on the internet. Like this list, but more international.
MontrealBase - Games from Montreal players past and present.
Old In Chess - In Spanish. Historical site includes a database of old games (mostly from the 70's last I checked).
PolBase - Polish games database.
RebelBase - Strong human players vs the Rebel computer program.
Rusbase - Games from events in Russia.
SSDF database & Man vs. Machine games - The test games used to create the SSDF ratings of chess programs, as well as a collection of man vs. machine games.
TWIC Past Issues - Keep up on current trends with the last 50 or so issues of The Week In Chess.
Uncrowned Kings - Games from top-notch, but not world champ players like Paul Keres, Nimzowitsch, and Bent Larsen.
University of Pittsburgh Chess Club - Has probably the biggest collection of games and downloadable chess stuff on the internet. However, it seems they are no longer updating it.
World Chess Championship - The games from the history of the World Championship, and from all the candidate and interzonal events. Well-organized and thorough. |
