Curated reference databases. Each fills a slice of history; enable the ones you want and LPDO keeps them current. Overlap between sources is deduplicated automatically.
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Coverage timeline
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Lumbra's Gigabase history → 2025IMPORTING…
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The Week in Chess 2026 → now
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Lichess Broadcasts 2026 → nowOFF
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+ Historical base
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+ Not to scale. Overlapping sources stack as separate rows; overlap is deduplicated.
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The Week in Chess
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Weekly archive of recent over-the-board tournament games, published since 1994. theweekinchess.com ↗
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↻ Auto-updates weekly · synced 2h ago
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◷ 1.24M games · ~310 MB on disk · next sync seconds
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games from 2026-01-01edit ⚙
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ⓘ Disabling keeps these games — remove them via the “TWIC” collection.
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free · attribution
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Lichess Broadcasts
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Over-the-board tournament games relayed live on Lichess, packaged monthly. database.lichess.org ↗
Deep historical OTB archive (complete years through 2025) — the base beneath the live feeds. lumbrasgigabase.com ↗
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⬇ Importing… 1990–1999 · on the server
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38% · ~16 min left · 4.1M / ~10M games · 1.4 GB ↓
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games up to 2025-12-31· undated excludededit ⚙
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ⓘ Runs on the server — you can close LPDO and it keeps going.
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⚠ CC BY-NC-SA · non-commercial
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Add a custom source (PGN URL or local file)
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◷ Time estimates are rough — they depend on your connection and machine; the importer refines them as it runs.
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Configure — Lumbra's Gigabase⚙ what “edit” opens
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Pick the date range you want. Overlap with TWIC & Lichess is deduplicated automatically.
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✓ Exclude games without a date
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≈ 1.4 GB to download · ~7 GB uncompressed while importing (temporary scratch space, freed afterward). New games are deduplicated against TWIC & Lichess.