A list of all authentic games that have happened so far I am looking for a database of chess games for a research purpose. I found that chessgames.com is one such site where the data for games of strong players would be available (I don't expect it to be free of course!). However, I am not at all interested in the actual moves made in a particular game; I simply want a list of two players and a result of the game. Does anybody know how and where such data would be available? It would be great if the data spans over several centuriesa as chessgames.com has.
I don't think there is any such database that only gives your names and results. But there are some mega databases you can download and script to anything that you want.


http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/mega_database_2015
http://www.top-5000.nl/pgn.htm
365chess.com
http://ficsgames.org
net-chess.com (where you can download correspondence games)


and others.

All you have to do is simply take a PGN file and script off the names of the players

[Date "1992.11.04"]
[Round "29"]
[White "Fischer, Robert J."]
[Black "Spassky, Boris V."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]


In this example, you'll just need to look for "White", "Black" and "Result". This is not a very hard scripting problem, you can even do it with unix commands. If you don't know how to write a script, please consult online documentation or post a question to stackoverflow.com.