Tom Brown wrote:
And if you want recent games played in tournaments around the world,
try this site. It has the most recent games in PGN or Chessbase
format, and archives of past games going back at least 2 years.

http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html

TWIC's archives actually go back to November 1998 on the website.
They only have archives going back to issue 211, which suggests that
there's another four years' worth that they don't have.

http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twicp.html
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twicp1.html

(The domains chesscenter.com, chesscentre.com and chess.co.uk all
point to the same place.)

I don't think TWIC is very useful for novices, though -- the games
aren't annotated so they're not all that helpful. Better to get a
good book of annotated games (e.g., the ones by Chernev, then
something like the annotated best games of Capablanca, Alehkine and
maybe Botvinnik, in whatever order takes your fancy).


Dave.

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