The Internet Chess Library -- An anonymous ftp archive at chess.onenet.net (this file may be somewhat out of date!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 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.