Shane's Chess Information Database

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SCID
Developed by	Shane Hudson
Latest release	3.6.1 / March, 2003
OS	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and probably other UNIX-like variants
Genre	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 ceased in 2004, but the web site was updated in mid-2006. There are at least two other projects making use of Scid code - ChessDB and Scid-pg.

Scid supports portable game notation and its own SCID database format. It can be used with Winboard chess engines such as Crafty and Phalanx 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 Main Window.

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.