G.
Ossimitz's Chess Pages
Lots of annoying pop-up ads here, but lots of free
games to choose from. Ossomitz likes to "annofritz"
his games (using Fritz to annotate). Especially valuable
is the Games Collections from Books. See
also this Ossimitz page.
e4e5
Database
An interesting interface that allows access to a wide
range of games.
Chessville.com
Downloads
Lots of downloads here, both new and old.
Net
Chess News
Generally offers the easiest-to-find PGN files of
recent events.
The
World Chess Championship
Download games from every World Championship match
and event.
Uncrowned
Kings
Download games from those who coulda, woulda, shoulda
(with a Brit-bias).
Annotated
Chess Databases
Many CB and PGN databases with annotations. Mostly
older and historical selections.
Commented
Games from Convekta
A great set of files to download.
My
Chess Site
A good source of game downloads in various categories,
though it is hard to tell whether or not most of
these materials are simply taken from the Pitt
Archive.
Chess
Collect
Dusan Stamenkovic's Chess Page, exploring and sharing
his hobby of collecting games. I found all of the
Download links broken when I visited recently, but
there was some accessible content and we can hope
he will make the necessary repairs.
Base
Online at Hechiceros
Great Java viewers categorized by opening.
Chessopolis
Chess Archives
A good collection of links to archives, focusing on
the Pittsburgh site.
Official
IECG Archives
You can download games from the International Email
Chess Group here. Lots of recent and theoretically
interesting games, but you have to wade through the
bunch.
La
Regence/Notzai
Notzai's chess download zone.
Colorado
Chess Informant
For those who enjoy trolling through amateur games.
Schaak! by Jaap van der Kooij
A personal site that features excellent links and some game collections.
A.J.
Goldsby's Downloads
A collection of interesting, often historic games,
many annotated.
Schach-Datenbank
Interested in 19th Century chess? This is a good place
to find games from the past.
Super
Tournaments
A collection of games from tournaments featuring
only the best players in the world at different
times in history.
Chess
Archaeology Library
Offers the best list of links to the various National
Database Archives (though some links were out of date
last time I looked).
Australian
Chess Federation
More an international games site than an Australian
national chess site, with loads of recent games to
play over online using an attractively designed interface.
BrasilBase
Adaucto Wanderley da Nobrega incredibly well-researched
site.
Britbase
A gigantic historical archive of games played in Britain.
DanBase
The Danish Archive is well maintained.
Chess
Ireland
John Hurley's long standing chess site was supposed
to move to irishchess.com. But it does not seem to
have been recently updated anywhere.
Scottish
Chess
Scottish
Correspondence Chess
The
Irish Chess Archive
Olimpbase:
The History of the Chess Olympiads
The name says it all.
Rusbase
The Russian archive is very well designed and maintained.
Russian
Chess
Features recent Russian games.
Yubase:
Yugoslavian Chess Games Database
Offers games from way back in Yugoslav history. If
a game was played in Yugoslavia, the score is probably
somewhere at this site to download.
Bobby
Fischer.net
Even though it is hard to be a "Fischer fan"
these days, here's a Fischer fan site with some pretty
good content. To demystify the man, visit his personal
site. But be warned: it is not as pleasant as
our nostalgic memory of 1972.
Capablanca
Biography with links to games.
Official
Anatoly Karpov Site (in Russian)
Anatoly
Karpov
An unofficial web site with some good content and
links to games.
Chess
Corner's Anatoly Karpov page
A good biography, his best game, and a link to a download
of games.
Kasparov
at ChessChamps.com
Alexandra
Kosteniuk
I also like to check out her great games....
Vladimir
Kramnik
A site devoted to the ongoing triumphs of the champion.
Frank
James Marshall Electronic Archive and Museum
A site devoted to America's great player of the early
20th century.
On
Nimzowitsch
An interesting historical web site devoted to the
father of hypermodernism.
Victor
(Vytas) Palciauskas
The home site of the 10th World Correspondence Champ.
His articles are especially worth reading here.
Polgar
Chess Center
A site devoted mostly to Zsuzsa.
Selected
Games of Judith Polgar
A good selection of games to play over online by the
attractive GM.
Dave's
Shrine to Judith Polgar
More fan site than game site, but the games are there
too..
Spraggett's
Chess Wisdom
The Canadian GM's web site offers advice as well as
games.
Dr.
Siegbert Tarrasch
A site devoted to the turn of the (last) century GM
and chess author.
