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an organized collection of chess games to perform [|selects], [|updates], [|inserts] and [|deletes] of games through a [|query language] or [|data manipulation language], most often implemented as [|dialogue] oriented user interface of a [|backend]. Data and query results of chess databases are typically organized as list of games, or as tree of positions which nodes index the games. They usually consist of multiple related [|computer files] keeping [|header information], annotations, moves, [|classifiers] such as opening keys à la ECO or NIC-Key, hashes and [|indices] for fast retrieval, quite similar to [|ISAM].
 * Chess Databases**,

=Commercial Chess Databases=
 * Bookbuilder
 * Bookup
 * Chess Assistant
 * ChessBase
 * NICBase
 * TascBase

=Free Chess Databases= > ChessDB > Scid on the Go > Scid vs. PC > Scidb
 * ChessX
 * Grue
 * jose
 * SCID
 * Scoutfish
 * Tarrasch

=See also= > PGN Collections
 * Chess Query Language
 * Endgame Tablebases
 * Intelligent Chess
 * Opening Book
 * Portable Game Notation
 * Zobrist Hashing

=Publications=
 * Christopher Chabris (**1988**). //[|ChessBase - A Centuries-old Pastime Comes of Age]//. [|STart Vol. 3 No. 2 - Special Issue #4]
 * Nico Kuijf, Peter van Diepen (**1991**). //Chess Database instead of Chess Literature//. Advances in Computer Chess 6
 * Johannes Fürnkranz (**1997**). //Knowledge Discovery in Chess Databases: A Research Proposal.// Technical Report OEFAI-TR-97-33, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, [|zipped ps], [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=

1990 ...

 * [|Chess Database programs] by Orion Auld, rgc, July 29, 1994
 * [|Database Organizing Strategies] by Greg Smith, rgc, May 04, 1995

2010 ...

 * [|Creating Books from .PGN files] by David Nash, CCC, December 20, 2011
 * [|Database storage methods] by David Nash, CCC, March 08, 2012
 * [|New Database Storage Method] by Edmund Moshammer, CCC, March 09, 2012
 * [|Chess Database with Age-Information?] by Dr. Axel Schumacher, CCC, July 08, 2012
 * [|How to implement a chess games database?] by Cary Cherng, CCC, November 20, 2013
 * [|How advanced are chess database searches?] by Russell Reagan, CCC, January 16, 2014

2015 ...

 * [|Scoutfish: powerful chess query tool] by Marco Costalba, CCC, December 11, 2016 » Portable Game Notation, Scoutfish
 * [|Chess databases from online servers] by Yolin Bardan, CCC, November 09, 2017
 * [|MillionBase 2017] by Ed Schroder, CCC, January 05, 2018 » PGN Collections
 * [|Speed up arbitrary position search in database] by Dominik Klein, CCC, March 17, 2018

=External Links=
 * [|Database from Wikipedia]
 * [|Chess Assistant from Wikipedia]
 * [|ChessBase - The Database from Wikipedia]
 * [|Database Software]

Games & Opening

 * [|ChessBase online database] » ChessBase
 * [|Chess-DB.com]
 * [|Chess Games Database Online - 365Chess.com]
 * [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Chess Tempo - Chess Database]
 * [|FICS Games Database] » Free Internet Chess Server
 * [|lichess.org game database]
 * [|NICBase Online] » NICBase

Endgames

 * [|Web Query for Nalimov Endgame Tablebases (DTM)] from [|Knowledge4IT] by Eiko Bleicher
 * [|Nalimov EGTB] from [|GMchess.com]
 * [|Chess Archives - Endgames (DTC, DTM, DTZ, DTZ-50)] hosted by John Tamplin
 * [|Nalimov Tablebase server (DTM)] by Lokasoft

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