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Whats the best free chess database?

Hey guys, I want to hear your opinion about what is the best free database of chess games, both in number of games stored and the level of players.
Recently I did some research and found the <a href="http://www.kingbase-chess.net/">Kingbase</a>. But it is not too big (about 600k games) and although they say in their site that it is updated every month, the last update was released March.
What is the best free option for Chessbase? By the way, I'm using Scid vs PC.
KingBase (03/2016): OVER 1.8 MILLION MODERN GAMES (YEAR > 1990), PLAYERS ELO > 2000

Looks pretty big. lol
http://gorgonian.weebly.com/pgn.html (2.81 million games)

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I use and maintain "my own" database which is updated monthly (roughly) using TWIC updates (like every other database including chessbase):

http://tinyurl.com/zoutn8p (~ 2.7 million games)

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There was a "ICOfY Base" which contained almost 5 million games. But it is discontinued. I don't know much about it.

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