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The Internet Chess Library -- An anonymous ftp archive at ftp.freechess.org
(this file may be somewhat out of date! :-) )
The chess archive consists of the content of the directory tree contained
in /pub/chess. At the top level of this tree are a few informational files
which are briefly described below (the contents of these files will be
updated from time to time):
ICS.getting-started
This is an old introduction to the ICS (internet chess server).
The information will apply somewhat to the current server, but it
has changed a great deal since this was written.
README
This is a file containing a welcome message and a statement of the
general purpose and intent of the archive.
README.archive-structure
This file.
README-pictures-of-netchessplayers
This tells how you might donate a digitized picture of yourself or
a chessplayer you know into the archive.
README-where_is_ICS.info
This is a 'link' to the file containing the current Internet
locations of the main ICS's (currently, one in USA and one in
Europe.)
README.too
This is an informational note related to finding recently uploaded
data.
chess-FAQ
This is the Chess FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions, and answers).
gnu-chess-FAQ
This is a FAQ for GnuChess, a public domain chess playing program
from the GNU (Gnu's Not Unix) project -- part of the Free Software
Foundation.
ls-lR
This is a complete listing of the current contents of the archive,
without descriptions. Filenames only. A Index with descriptions
is probably not a possibility at this time because of the limited
resources of the current maintainer. (Any help on this would be
greatly appreciated)
where_is_ICS.info
This is the info file for the locations of the ICS's.
README-where_is_ICS.info is linked to this file.
The rest of the archive is divided into a number of subdirectories which
attempt to classify the data somewhat. Below is a listing of directories
in this archive and what one might expect to find there.
/pub/chess/
Amiga/ Software and data for/related to Amiga computers.
Atari/ Software and data for/related to Atari computers.
CBUFF/ Files and data for the CBUFF (ChessBase Utilities
File Format) project.
Atari/
DOS/
Macintosh/
Unix/
data/
doc/
src/
DOS/ Software and data for/related to IBM PC compatible
computers running DOS/Windows.
Bookup/ Bookup data files. This is a link to the directory:
Game-Databases/Bookup/
ChessAssistent/ ChessAssistent data files. This is a link to the
directory: Game-Databases/ChessAssistent/
ChessBase/ ChessBase data files. This is a link to the
directory: Game-Databases/ChessBase/
NicBase/ NicBase data files. this is a link to the
directory: Game-Databases/NicBase/
Tools/ Utility programs for DOS. Archiving and compression
utilities needed to unpack most of the data in this
archive may be found here for DOS.
Game-Databases/ This is a directory tree dedicated to Chess game databases
in varying formats. Utilities to convert from one format
to another may be found in the Tools directory.
Bookup/ Bookup database files.
ChessAssistent/ ChessAssistent database files.
Tools/ Utilities for manipulating/converting ChessAssistent
data files. This is a link to the directory:
Game-Databases/Tools/ChessAssistent/
ChessBase/ ChessBase database files.
Tools/ Utilities for manipulating/converting ChessBase
data files. This is a link to the directory:
Game-Databases/Tools/ChessBase/
ChessBase_CBUFF/ ChessBase database files from the CBUFF project.
This is a link to the directory: CBUFF/data/
NicBase/ NicBase database files.
Tools/ Utility programs for manipulating/converting NicBase
files. This is a link to the directory:
Game-Databases/Tools/NicBase/
PGN/ This is the PGN (Portable Game Notation) project
directory tree. It contains utilities for the PGN
format (including tools for converting between other
formats) and game databases in the format. A DOS
program for viewing these databases is available.
Events/ PGN format data files of events in specific years.
1990/
1993/
1994/
MGR/ The MASTER GAME REPOSITORY directory. Contains (or
soon will) thousands of games in PGN format.
Players/ PGN data file of games for specific players: Kasparov,
Tal, Fischer, Karpov, Polgar, and others!
Tools/ Utilities for PGN data files. Conversion tools and a
reader.
Tools/ Utility programs for all Databasse formats in the
Game-Databases area.
ChessAssistent/
ChessBase/
NicBase/
PGN/ This is a link to the directory:
Game-Databases/PGN/Tools/
HTML/ Hypertext files. For use with Mosaic (WWW) clients. If
you don't know what this is, don't worry. It's
specific to distributed information over the Internet.
ICS_help/ All the help files for the ICS.
Macintosh/ Software and data for/related to Macintosh's.
NeXT/ Software and data for/related to NeXT computers.
PGN/ This is the PGN (Portable Game Notation) project
directory tree. It contains utilities for the PGN
format (including tools for converting between other
formats) and game databases in the format. A DOS
program for viewing these databases is available.
This is a link to the directory: Game-Databases/PGN/
SAN_testsuites/ This is a collection of test positions for testing the
the problem solving capabilities of chess software.
These files are related to the SAN (Standard Algebraic
Notation) project, the distribution of which may be
obtained in the Unix/ directory. SAN utilities and
datafiles use PGN.
Unix/ Software and data for/related to Unix OS.
X/ Software and data for/related to X-Windows.
chessbits/ Archives of the Chessbits Electronic magazine which will
probably not come back to life, although an occasional
ICS-Newsletter seems to have picked up the slack.
These are found in texts/
dropoff/ A place to drop things off where no-one but the archive
maintainer can get to them. Please accompany anything
with a brief note.
ics-tourn/ Data and games related to tournaments held on the ICS's.
masters/ Collections of games for masters and tournaments in ascii
format primarily (some are PGN compatible)
matches/
WCC_1993/ Games of the World Chess Championships in 1993.
Fide men's and women's and the PCA match as well.
pictures/ Digitized pictures of chess related art and/or chess players
both famous and not so famous.
projects/ A directory tree for software projects donated to the
archive. Not necessarily chess related.
metagame/
morph/
texts/ General texts of materials, analysis and some game scores.
A grab-bag of chess related materials.
PCA_Qualifiers_1993/
uploads/ A directory containing lots of subdirectories for donating
materials to the archive. Pick an appropriate directory
here for your upload.
windows/ Here is where new applications for MSwindows or other brands
of windows for the IBM PC reside. This area is new, so
many windows applications still are in th DOS directory.
xchange/ A place for data/software you want to make available to
everyone but which you might not want to place in a
'permanent' area do to it's developmental/experimental
nature.
[Last modified: April 8, 1998 -- Friar]
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