Answers.Body: <p>There's no official source for that. Someone just has to download the PGN games manually.</p>
  
  <p>It is indeed a prohibitive amount of work, but we are talking about money here. They are <strong>not</strong> doing the collection for fun, they are trying to sell their services for something else such as paid membership or book advertisements.</p>
  
  <p>Let's take a look at the TWIC homepage. Please note the paid ads by New In Chess. They're offering you PGN download as a business.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Most players use these services to keep up to date on the latest chess results, but how do these services source their databases? It would seem like a prohibitive amount of work to scrape results from various tournament websites, so is there an official source that everyone uses? If it's FIDE, I wasn't able to find it on their site.</p>
  
  <p>Tournaments often have a place to turn in your scoresheets, but what happens between that and the game showing up in one of these databases?</p>
  
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Title: How do TWIC, chessgames.com, chessbase, etc. keep up to date with new games?
ThreadText: # How do TWIC, chessgames.com, chessbase, etc. keep up to date with new games?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-16)
  
  Most players use these services to keep up to date on the latest chess results, but how do these services source their databases? It would seem like a prohibitive amount of work to scrape results from various tournament websites, so is there an official source that everyone uses? If it's FIDE, I wasn't able to find it on their site.
  
  Tournaments often have a place to turn in your scoresheets, but what happens between that and the game showing up in one of these databases?
  
  **Tags:** fide, database
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-10-17. Score: 2
  
  There's no official source for that. Someone just has to download the PGN games manually.
  
  It is indeed a prohibitive amount of work, but we are talking about money here. They are **not** doing the collection for fun, they are trying to sell their services for something else such as paid membership or book advertisements.
  
  Let's take a look at the TWIC homepage. Please note the paid ads by New In Chess. They're offering you PGN download as a business.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/1IYbw.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/1IYbw.png)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Download the games manually or use an application which crawls the web pages and downloads them automatically?  
  > **username_1**: @Tom Manually is quicker in most cases. The olympid games are available on the official site.  
  
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