Scid
Shane's Chess Information Database (SCID) is a chess database
application with a graphical user interface. It can also be
used for playing on internet chess servers, or playing against a chess
program.
With Scid you can maintain a database of chess games,
search games by many criteria, view graphical trends, and produce
printable reports on players and openings. Scidlet or any other
WinBoard-compatible chess
engine, and even use Scid to study endings with endgame tablebases.
There are three main programs that make up Scid:
- scid is the main application, with a graphical user
interface
- scidlet is a chess engine which can be
used in Scid to analyze chess positions.
- pgnscid is a command-line (console) program that converts
PGN files into scid format
Scid supports portable game notation and its own compact and
fast Scid database format. It can be used with chess engines such as
Crafty
and GNU chess, and with UCI such as Toga
II, 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.
Features include:
- Scid analysis window provides a way to have a chess engine
such as Crafty analyse the current position, automatically restarting
the analysis whenever the position changes
- Search games by exact position, material, player names, and
many other criteria
- Export games in PGN, HTML, or LaTeX formats
- Save opening reports in HTML, LaTeX, or plain text format
- Built-in chess program called Scidlet
- UCI and xboard engines are supported
- Play by correspondence
- View graphical trends
- Piece tracker
- Tournament finder
- ECO browser
- Repertoire editor
- Crosstable
- Study Variations
- Docked windows
- Produce printable reports on players and openings
- Multi-language support
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