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		Blahah on May 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over ti... Why do you all have your own datasets of historical chess moves? Is this a popular playground for data analysis, or is it something chess learners study?

TylerE on May 27, 2014 | [–]

Chess compresses very well. You can fit pretty much every meaningful game ever played into 10gb or so.

cven714 on May 26, 2014 | [–]

It's something chess players study. Check out database.chessbase.com

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