Game Collection

To submit your game, you can use a carbon-less score sheet and turn it in after the round (collection box in main playing room), or email the PGN to the game collection service. See "Contact Us" for more details on sending email to the Club.

856 Games as of 2007-03

Available 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 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