Shane's Chess Information Database
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| Developer(s) | Shane Hudson |
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| Stable release | 3.6.26 / October 2008 |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and probably other UNIX-like variants |
| Type | Chess database |
| License | GPL |
| Website | 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 is at least one other project making use of Scid code - 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 GNU chess, 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.
[edit] Overview
Scid can classify games using the standard ECO code, as well as 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 filtering by player, color, year, result, and 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.
[edit] References
- Review by Chess Zone
- Zipf law in the popularity distribution of chess openings
- Zarkon Fischer's Free Chess Programs
- Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess : Chess Programs
