PGN file of 1930 games played before 1862.
Original ASCII file created by Bill Wall, and then
archived at Steve Mayer's WWW site:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/sm/smayer/chessbase

as "oldgames.zip".  oldgames.zip also has some games
from the 1960's, but they are not included in this
file.

This PGN file created by Gordon Taylor.