The ChessGML download page

This page lists the material that is available for ChessGML. If you want to know which (XML and programming) tools are necessary for working with ChessGML, look at the distribution documentation.

Distribution packages

There are two variants of the ChessGML distribution:

• The full distribution contains all files including those that are derived from the originals by compiling programs and processing files.
• The small distribution contains only those files that are necessary.

See the distribution documentation for the exact differences and for a list of the tools you need to generate the other files. Once you have the tools you needn't do the generation manually; the script init.bat in the distribution's top-level directory does it for you.

Sample files

All the files listed in this section are also contained in the distribution. Get one of them if you have a slow Internet connection and want to make a decision whether you are sufficiently interested to downlad the complete distribution.

• Rubinstein – Teichmann is a commented game from the tournament book of Karlsbad 1907. (Both authors, Georg Marco and Karl Schlechter, died more than 70 years ago, so the book is no longer under copyright.)

  The ZIP file (27 KB) contains both the ChessGML file and the automatically generated RTF file; if you don't have MS Office 97, you can view the latter with Microsoft's Winword Viewer. The diagram font you need (Chess Leipzig) is included in the ZIP file.

• The (uncommented) games of the Corus tournament 2000 can be obtained in two formats:

  • As a Winword document, containing all games in Wildhagen style (a diagram after every five moves, 4x4 diagrams on a page). The ZIP (107 KB) file also contains the original XML file and the Berlin diagram font.
  • As set of HTML files, the main file containg the tournament crosstable and progressive table and an HTML file for each game. The end position is given as a diagram consisting of 64 small gif images. The ZIP file (115 KB) contains everything needed including the GIFs.

More sample files

There are ten more tournaments (ranging from classics like Hastings 1895 to the last two German championships) in a separate distribution named ChessGML data (826 KB in size). The formats provided are PGN and ChessGML SAN. You have to perform the transformations yourself with the tools in the ChessGML distribution; sample scripts for this purpose are included.

The PGN Standard

The PGN standard is available in several formats:

• The complete standard tagged as (Docbook) XML is in http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.xml. This file is 174 KB in size.
• The complete standard as one big (197 KB) HTML file is in http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.htm. This file is quotable, which means that you can make references to it in your documents, and that I guarantee it will stay at this place even if I someday decide to reorganize my website.
• Both files (XML and HTML) are in http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-complete.zip (85 KB).
• The standard splitted into 64 small HTML files is in http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn.zip (101 KB).
• The complete standard in PDF format is in the ZIP file http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/standards/pgn/pgn-pdf.zip (236 KB).