Best of Chess

Best of Chess extracts the most spectacular games from a PGN database. Each game is evaluated on 3 features.

. King Attack bonus.

. Material Sacrifice bonus.

. Length of the game, the less number of moves a game is won the higher the bonus.

If a game exceeds the total bonus of 10.000 points the game is stored in a new PGN file called Best-of-Chess.pgn.

Consider this game taken from ChessBase MegaBase-2025, played in 1855. The game is output with the following extra PGN tags:

[Event "Best of Chess"]
[Site "King-Attacks, Sacrifices, Short Games"]
[King "7440"] * King Attack evaluation
[Short "7400"] * Short Game bonus
[Sac "18000"] * Pawn units sacrificed - 18 in this game
[Total "32840"] * Total evaluation

More examples

. For humans, check the games of the late great Adolf Anderssen and his two immortal games.

. For computers, check the games of Rebel-Extreme 1.1 and how it plays fascinating chess.

What's in the Download ?

. Best-of-Chess.exe, just double click to run and select a PGN database to practice.

. Elo-2700-rated-players.pgn.

. Elo-2800-rated-players.pgn.

. How-Rebel-Extreme-plays-chess, a PGN collection of 88.800 games it played.

. Several PGN output files in the root folder: Alekhine.pgn, Morphy.pgn, Best-of-Rebel-Extreme.pgn, and more, their best games.

Parameters in Best-of-Chess.ini

PGN Output Margin = 100
King Attack Factor = 100
Short Games Factor = 100
Sacrifice Factor = 100
Player =

PGN Output Margin : defines the minimum total evaluation score needed to output a game, 100 means 10.000 points, 200 means 20.000 points, 0 means every game is evaluated and stored in the output PGN.

Player = Morphy, P : will output the games of the famous Paul Morphy, consider the PGN Output Margin = 0 using this option in case you want all his games.

King Attack Factor , Short Games Factor and Sacrifice Factor are tuning percentages. In case you feel the King Attack scores are too high lower the percentage, if you think the Short Games score are too low increase the percentage, and so on. As after all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.