The club's game archives are divided into two
collection:
·
DGT Board Archive - 2010 to present
·
Classic collection - 938 games
collected from 1983 through 2009
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DGT Board Archive
The DGT Board Archive starts November 9, 2010 when we
used our first two DGT boards. In 2013 we purchased four additional
boards to bring our count to six. In 2013 we also started broadcasting
the games live to the club website.
Most recent update: 2015-01-27
- 562 games
DGT Archive
in CBV format DGT Archive in PGN format
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The classic collection starts at April
1, 1979, and continues through Nov 1 2009, containing 938 games - see below for
details and formats. The classic Game Collection are collections of
games played at MetroWest CC. The complete game
collection has all over the board games. The correspondence matches are a
separate collection. These are from Team Email Matches.
Available classic collections:
- Complete game
collection - This is a collection from Monthly
Tournaments and Special
Events, going back over 20 years. There are some gaps, and if you
are interested in volunteering
to help close these gaps, please contact Matt or Steve.
- Annual Yearbook
- A subset of the complete game collection of just the games from the
year 2003, 2004, etc.
- Games from Tal Simul - GM Mikhail
Tal played a simul at our
Club in 1988. We have all of the games, including a win by Bobby
Seltzer!
- Correspondence
Games - These are games from our Team
Email Match events.
Available classic formats:
- ChessBase
archive - This is a single compressed file that contains a complete ChessBase database inside. To view this format
requires ChessBase Light (see below) or better
- PGN - This is a
single, human
readable text file that is viewable with virtually any text or word
processing tool. The PGN has header info about the game, followed by the
moves, in short algebraic form. In addition, ChessBase
Light, Chess Pad and similar tools can show you the PGN on a virtual
chess board.
- HTML - These
games can be selected and replayed immediately, in your browser. Your
browser must support both JavaScript, and frames.
Available tools:
- ChessBase
Light - A free tool that allows one to read (but not create or
edit) ChessBase databases, limited to 32000
games. This is definitely the premium of free tools
- Chess Pad - A
free tool, easy to use, compatible with PGN, Crafty (also free) and Winboard
Instructions:
- For those submitting
their own games.
- For those volunteering
to entering games to submit to the game collection
- For those maintaining the Database
New: Selected 2008 MetroWest CC Championship games in replayable
web pages
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