GorgoBase - A collection of 2.81 million games made from all TWIC files and all PGN Mentor files. SCID format only. Last update:, TWIC #1097. Our website provides a free download of PGN Mentor 5.0. PGN Mentor lies within Games, more precisely Strategy. Pgnment.exe is the default file name to indicate the PGN Mentor installer. This program is a product of 64 Squares. This PC software is developed for Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 environment, 32-bit version. Allows you to view, replay, analysis and share Chess PGN (Portable Game Notation) files from Google Drive. Once installed, you will be able to double click.pgn files in Drive to open them in a Chess game viewer. This application uses the excellent pgn4web open source project. For further help, you can press the ESC key in Chess PGN Viewer.

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I have collected over 540 000 fresh tournament chess games (pgn downloads) from the last five years for you (till June 2016) and show you how to build your personal database using a free database software program called SCID vs PC (free). Read more about SCID vs PC

Shane’s Chess Information Database (SCID) was originally written by Shane Hudson, but has received strong contribution from others.

With SCID vs PC you can create huge databases without having to buy expensive chess database software like ChessBase Mega Package.

You can also run chess engines and play games against the computer. However in the beginning SCID seems to be complicated to use it, so I will explain some important features that you must know to be able to build your database.

I have to charge you $35 for the pgn downloads, because it has been a lot of work to build the pgn file with over 540 000 chess games, as you can surely imagine.

You can use my pgn database with SCID vs PC and build your personal database with it.

How to use Modern Database?

To open the pgn file Modern Database to see the chess games in it, you need a chess database like SCID vs PC (free, see this page below), or, for example,
ChessBase Mega Package or as alternative the Russian database Chess Assistant PRO with Houdini PRO (DVD) or the interface of a commercially available chess program like Fritz Chess Software that has a database included to which you can add my Modern Database.

Install Chess Database

Download SCID vs PC (free)
Make sure you download the right version. If you have a Windows 64 bit PC, then download the 64 bit version.

SCID vs PC creates an icon on your desktop. See below.

Find, open and install SCID on your computer. It will create an icon on your PC as shown below.

Create NEW Database Name

You have to start from scratch and create a new database. Click on FILE/NEW and give your database a name that you like. (example: ModernDatabase) See image below.

You need this new database to import (copy) your pgn games into it later on. If you would simply open any pgn file instead that contains chess games then you will not be able to delete or edit any games because your pgn files are classified read-only and cannot be changed. This means that you will not be able to change anything in the pgn files you have, but only in the database. For that reason you have to create first a new database that has three different file endings to be able to handle complex editing procedures and it does not have the file ending pgn.

This newly created database structure is necessary to be able to edit or delete any games in the future and import new pgn games into it from other pgn files.

So your newly created database will have no games in it in the very beginning.

Open any of your created Databases

You can create different databases. For example, you might create a database where you will import only old chess games played by old chess masters and call it, OldBase.

To open any Database click on FILE/OPEN. See below.

Copy PGN Games into your Database

To fill your database with chess games go to TOOLS/IMPORT PGN FILES. Then find your PGN files on your computer and import (load) them into your database. See image below.

Loading PGN Files

When PGN files are loaded in the database then you will see this small window below which shows the loading procedure.

When all games of the PGN File are loaded, then this window will show the games that have technical errors in it. See image below.

You should find and delete or repair these games in your database (not in PGN File as this is read-only).

Just lookup the number of a game that has errors in it, then find the number of this game in the database and rightclick mouse and click delete.

This will NOT delete the game immediately, but simply will mark (flag) it. After this, click on COMPACT. This will fix those “deleted” games in the database for later deletion in the MAINTENANCE Window.

As you can see above there are some games that have errors and should be deleted or repaired.

List of Games

To see your listed games in your database OR in your PGN files click on LIST OF GAMES. Before you do this you have to go to FILE/OPEN and open up a database or a PGN file. See image below.

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Have you heard the joke about PGN files?

“John, what do you play against 1.d4?”

“Well, I’m glad you asked.I can play the Queen’s Gambit, the Nimzo Indian, the Grunfeld, the King’s Indian, and of course, the Semi Slav.”

“Oooh, wow!! How did you learn all of that?”

“I haven’t learned it yet. But I have the PGN files…”

On the one hand, it’s quite funny, but on the other, it’s quite sad. There are so many chess players that genuinely believe that if they have the PGN of a particular opening, they already know it. And, if a friend of theirs has already watched a course and created their own PGN file, they simply ask them to send it their way so that they “know” the opening too.

In the best-case scenario, they try to study the PGN and memorize the lines but ultimately this proves unsuccessful most of the time.

As we’ve already discussed in our article about memorizing variations, you don’t actually need to memorize variations, you need to understand them.

In this article, we’ll speak about the reasons why you shouldn’t use other people’s PGN files and the best way to create your own.

You wouldn’t wear your friend’s small t-shirt, would you?

When the size of your t-shirt is XL, you can’t wear the t-shirt of your friend whose size is S. And likewise, he can’t wear yours either.

The same is in chess.

If your rating is 2500 and you have a PGN file created by your friend who’s rated 1500, then it will be worthless to you. And if your rating is 1500, but you have a PGN file created by a Grandmaster, then you won’t be able to understand or remember any of the variations.

Walk in your own shoes

The number of variations you learn and the depth of your opening preparation will vary based upon your chess rating.

For example, it’s fine if a 1500 level player memorizes and understands the ideas of a particular opening until move 10, a Grandmaster goes deeper until move 25 and a Super-Grandmaster in the top 10 of the world analyzes all the way to move 40.

But if your rating is 1500 and you try to understand or remember opening variations until move 30, it’s going to be virtually impossible and, on a practical level, completely pointless.

Also, some people need to know all the ideas of a particular variation before playing it. And some people are very confident in themselves and require a minimum understanding of a specific opening variation or position. Both cases are fine. People are different, and they learn differently.

A tale of 2 Grandmasters

Last year, one of my Grandmaster students asked me to teach him the Modern Benoni.
But rather curiously, we spent a few months doing this when usually it takes a month at the most. The thing was, he was hungry to learn all the variations up to almost the last move, and the following day after each lesson, he had dozens of questions.

Around the same time, my friend GM Gabuzyan asked me to teach him the Modern Benoni too. What was very funny is that we finished it in two weeks! /visual-analysis-software-for-mac.html.

In the middle of the variation, he kept stopping me and saying, “that’s enough, I’ll figure out the rest of it during my games.” Sometimes he would even say “that’s enough” at the very beginning of a variation when the theory is only just beginning.

And yet, he was feeling the positions very well. He had confidence in himself and it would be boring for such a type of person and chess player to go to the game knowing everything.

“Give me your opening analysis!”

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Sometimes, I get a message from a ChessMood PRO Member, asking me to send them my PGN files, with very deep opening analysis. But what would they gain from them?

I’ll show you, for example, my Caro-Kann file.

This is just one file. And there are hundreds like this…

Could you memorize all of that? - Absolutely not.

But can I memorize it? - Not everything, but most of it, yes.

It’s not because I’m a genius – in fact, my memory isn’t even that great. But it’s because I’ve created the files myself, with my own hands and with my own mouse. I didn’t blindly copy the file from somewhere else but instead, I took the time to understand the ideas behind each move.

Now, do you still want to blindly copy-paste?

Sure, computers can do that – but our brains can’t (at least not yet, maybe in 10 years or so Elon Musk will invent something). Civilation 6 mac free download.

Create your own files

You shouldn’t ask for PGN files from others, you shouldn’t download PGN files from pirate websites, and you shouldn’t try to memorize variations from a PGN file that wasn’t created by you.
Even if you could memorize it somehow, you’ll forget it very easily.
It isn’t your t-shirt, and it isn’t your size.

One size doesn’t fit all

Very rich and very successful people rarely buy a suit at a store. Instead, they have them tailor-made. It’s more expensive, but it fits much better.

The same applies with chess. Players have their own distinctive style. Some find it easy to memorize lines, others find it much harder. Moreover, everyone has their own unique techniques of learning new things.

If you use the same PGN file as someone else, you’ll end up wearing a mass-produced suit that isn’t built to handle your unique characteristics as a chess player.

In our article about memorizing variations, I’ve already shared the best way to create your own PGN files if you’re watching a course.

You can do the same if you’re learning something from a book or a coach.

In the beginning, your PGN files might be small, but with time they’ll become bigger and bigger - along with your growth in chess.

For example, if you’re learning to play the Grand Prix attack for White and your level is 1200, your PGN files might look something like this:

See the right part of the image? There aren’t many variations. The PGN file is quite short.
Just brief notes on how you start the attack, which you can review before the game.

When your rating grows, and you start learning the same opening deeper, your PGN file might develop into something like this:

Now, as you can see, there are many more variations such as 2.Nc6, 2.a6, 2.e6 and 2.g6. /touchmix-app-for-laptop-mac.html. In the future, you could even separate Black’s 2nd moves and take them into another file.

Otherwise, if you just ask for a PGN file from your friend who has already created his own files, or from a Grandmaster who designed a course, and they send you something like this:

… you’ll just have the file, you’ll be happy at first, but in the end, you won’t understand it and won’t benefit from it at all.

Why are there websites that provide the PGN files?

In my podcast with Ben Johnson, I talked about this topic.
Many websites offer you courses and materials that you want.
And all smart marketers know that “Do you also offer the PGN file?” is the most common question that people ask before buying a course. So they also provide the PGN file.

That’s okay, I don’t blame anyone.
But our approach is different. We don’t give you what you want, but what you need.
We don’t sell you something and wish you good luck. Our success isn’t measured by our revenue, but our students’ success.

If they had a course and had the PGN file, they might be happy at first.

But in the end, when they don’t learn much, or when they can’t memorize it and they don't grow then all their time and resources are wasted.

So you don’t provide PGNs?

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We do! And we give the PGN file + homework.
Below you can see the PGN example file we give with the Petroff Defense.

We want to be sure that our students don’t forget to input a variation, but at the same time, we don’t input all the moves. Instead, we include questions to help you complete the file and maximize your learning.

It takes time, but it’s far more effective at helping you to memorize and understand the variations. And also, everyone makes their custom PGN file, based on their level. Some people like to keep it simple; some people like to write descriptions after each move.
Some people, after 11.Kb1, will input all the variations as shown in the course; some people will write down the idea of Kb1, which will be enough for them to remember for now.

What if it’s a middlegame or an endgame course?

Again, we do what we feel is most effective for our students.
For example, if we’re talking about our course “Commented Classical Games”, we provide a full PGN file with diagrams on the most critical positions. But we also offer a quiz so that in the end, our students can test their acquired knowledge.

You can see an example here.

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If it’s a theoretical endgame course, there will be a mix of written answers and diagrams, where you should try to memorize the right move and put it in the file.

Again, it takes time, but if raising your rating was easy, millions of people would be 2700+ players.

Try it yourself!

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If you’re looking for shortcuts, then understand this…creating your own PGN files is going to be a big shortcut to understanding and memorizing the openings and variations that you play.

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P.S. As always, feel free to share your thoughts on our forum.