FICS Chess Game Harvester

This script connects to the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org) and downloads games as they complete. All games are output in Portable Game Notation format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pgn). Games are written to stdout.

Usage

Usage: fcg_harvester.rb [options]

Options:
    -n NUMBER        Specifies the number of games to harvest (default 1).
    -h, --help       Show this help message and exit.

Example

Calling the script with no arguments returns one game (you may need to wait a few seconds for a game to complete):

$ fcg_harvester.rb
[Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2010-08-02 10:24"]
[White "redacted"]
[Black "redacted"]
[WhiteElo "1606"]
[BlackElo "1623"]
[TimeControl "3+0"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Qc2 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. h3 Bxf3 7. Bxf3 Ne5
8. Be2 d5 9. f4 Nc6 10. e5 Ne4 11. Bb5 Ng3 12. Rg1 e6 13. Bxc6+ bxc6
14. d3 Be7 15. Be3 Bh4 16. Bf2 Nf5 17. g3 Be7 18. g4 Nh6 19. Nd2 Rb8
20. Nf3 f6 21. exf6 gxf6 22. O-O-O Qa5 23. a3 c4 24. dxc4 Bxa3 25. cxd5 Rxb2
26. Qxb2 Bxb2+ 27. Kxb2 cxd5 28. g5 fxg5 29. Nxg5 Ke7 30. Bh4 Rb8+ 31. Kc2 Qa2+
32. Kd3 Qc4+ 33. Ke3 Nf5+ 34. Kf3 Nxh4+ 35. Kg4 Ng6 36. Rgf1 Qe2+ 37. Kg3 h5
38. Rfe1 h4# {White checkmated} 0-1

License

This utility has been released under the BSD license. See fcg_harvester.rb for full license.