Shane's Chess Information Database

Infobox Software
name=Scid


caption=Scid 3.2 on Linux
developer=Shane Hudson
latest_release_version=3.6.24
latest_release_date=June, 2008
operating_system=Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and probably other UNIX-like variants
genre=Chess database
license=GPL
website= [http://scid.sourceforge.net/ scid.sourceforge.net]

Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) is a popular free UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac database application for viewing and maintaining databases of chess games. Scid development has been resumed after it ceased in 2004. There are at least one other project making use of Scid code - [http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ ChessDB] .

Scid supports portable game notation and its own Scid database format. It can be used with chess engines with support for Winboard such as Crafty and Phalanx, and with UCI such as Fruit, Rybka and Shredder to play chess against or to analyse games. Scid can use up to five piece endgame tablebases. Photographs of players may be stored in the database, so they are shown when a game is played.

Overview

Scid can classify games using the standard ECO code, as well al its own extensions to the ECO system. One can search for specific endings, such as pawn vs. rook or rook vs. queen. Scid's search allows filterng by player, color, year, the result, and the ECO code.

Scid has a maintenance window where for example one can delete twin games. (It is frequent to have the same game in a database twice if the games are downloaded from multiple sources.) Scid can plot graphs of ratings vs. time.

References

* [http://www.chesszone.org/soft/scid/scid.html Review by Chess Zone]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2711v1 Zipf law in the popularity distribution of chess openings]
* [http://freechess.50webs.com/Scid.html Zarkon Fischer's Free Chess Programs]
* [http://www.markalowery.net/Chess/Downloads/pdf_files/Chess_Programs.pdf Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess : Chess Programs]

External links

* [http://scid.sourceforge.net Scid homepage]
* [http://chessdb.sourceforge.net ChessDB homepage]
* [http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/index.html Scid-pg homepage]
* [http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ Jose-chess homepage]