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I use Linux and SCID and polyglot books. I'm looking for a good selection of games that feature gambits exclusively so that I can use the PGN from those games to build a polyglot opening book that will play only gambits.

Anyone know of a good collection of such games?

Thanks,

Roy

Would it be practical to take you main SCID database and filter games based on known gambit openings?

64x wrote:Would it be practical to take you main SCID database and filter games based on known gambit openings?

That was my thought as well but I discovered that I do not know nearly as many gambit openings are there actually are, and it would be somewhat tedious to select a set of games for each opening (one by one as I stepped down the list of gambits). I was hoping that someone had already compiled a decent set of gambits in a pgn file. Apparently that is not the case -- or at least not for anyone that has read my posting!

A good starting point for gambits is this list on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_gambits

Andrew wrote:A good starting point for gambits is this list on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_gambits

Wow! Thanks for this link! I don't know how I did not come across it previously!

Thanks again!

Chessbase recently posted a link to http://studimonetari.org/edg/ which is a list of 700 gambits.