Add in the master database the games before 1952

[cecile-rose]

The master database from Lichess starts in 1952. Why not make it start earlier? It would not add many games and would allow to see the games of the great players before 1952.

[niklasf]

Happy to add it, if anyone has a collection that we can legally redistribute.

[cecile-rose]

If you do a search, there are several royalty-free databases.

There is the millionBase of Ed Schröder, the designer of the famous Rebel programs. All his programs and chess material are now royalty free: https://rebel13.nl/download/data.html

I see that there are also others:

1. Caissabase : http://caissabase.co.uk/ (seems to take over millionBase + others).
2. Codekiddy-chess : https://sourceforge.net/projects/codekiddy-chess/

[cecile-rose]

By reading the Caissabase website ( http://caissabase.co.uk/ ), it really looks like a very interesting royalty free base.