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Welcome!

Welcome to the website for Scid ("Shane's Chess Information Database"), a chess database application for Windows and Linux operating systems. Scid is free but a donation (which can get you Scid on a CD-ROM with a high-quality million-game database) is encouraged; see the CD-ROM page for donation details.

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. You can also analyze games with the chess program Scidlet or any other WinBoard-compatible chess engine, and even use Scid to study endings with endgame tablebases. There are many more features as well; the screenshots show just some of what Scid can do.

Most menus and messages in Scid are available in 13 languages; thank you to all the translators.

News

The latest full release is 3.6.1; see the What's New and Downloads pages. There is no 3.7 beta test release yet.

Getting Help

Need help with Scid? There are several resources available including a tutorial for new users (under construction), online help pages, a web forum, and a mailing list with 300 subscribers. See the new Resources page for more information.

Can't find what you're looking for? Use the search box in the left-hand panel to Google-search the whole Scid site, including the online help, tutorial, etc.

Feedback

I hope you enjoy using Scid! Send any comments, suggestions, bug reports or other feedback to sgh@users.sourceforge.net. Or see the Author page for more contact details.