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{{short description|Software application for viewing and maintaining databases of chess games}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Scid

| screenshot = Scid_4.62-Win7.png

| caption = Scid 4.6.2 on Windows

| developer = Shane Hudson

| latest_release_version = 5.0.2<ref>{{cite web|title=v5.0.2|url=https://github.com/benini/scid/releases/tag/v5.0.2|website=github.com| accessdate=2023-06-23}}</ref>

|latest_release_version=4.6.4

| latest_release_date =August 2016March 2023

| operating_system = [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]] and probably other, [[UNIX-likeOpenBSD]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/games/scid/Makefile |title = CVS log variantsfor ports/Games/Scid/Makefile}}</ref>

| genre = [[Chess]] database

| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]

| website = [httphttps://scid.sourceforge.net/ scid.sourceforge.net]

}}

'''Shane's Chess Information Database''' ('''Scid''') is a [[Free software|free]] and [[Open-source software|open source]] [[UNIX]], [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]], [[Linux]], and [[macOS|Mac]] application for viewing and maintaining hugelarge databases of [[chess]] games.<ref name="chesszone"/> It has features comparable to popular commercial chess software.<ref name="freechess"/> Scid is written in Tcl/Tk and C++.

Scid has undergone several stages of development., Firstlyfirstly by Shane Hudson, and then by Pascal Georges.

== Features ==

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Scid is a powerful Chess Toolkit with many features. It can interface with [[XBoard]] engines (such as [[Crafty]] and [[GNU Chess]]), and [[Universal Chess Interface|UCI]] engines (e.g. [[Fruit (chess engine)|Fruit]], [[Rybka]] and [[Stockfish (chess)|Stockfish]]). Using Scid, one may play games against human opponents (on the Free Internet Chess Server), or computer opponents. Database features include a Move Tree with statistics, Player Information and Photos, and General Searches for specific endings (e.g. pawn vs. rook or rook vs. queen), positions or players. It has a database with 1.4 million games (ScidBase).<ref name="bernd2009"/>

Scid's speed is due to its storing chess games in its own compact database format (si4), but it also supports the popular [[portable game notation]] (PGN).

== Related software ==

There are multiple projects related to Scid, all using the si4 database format. ChessDB<ref name="chessdb"/> was the first Scid fork. Scid vs. PC<ref name="scidvspc"/> has been in development forsince five years to 20142009, and has an improved interface.<ref name="scidcousins"/> Its major new feature is a Computer Tournament mode and also includes rewritten Gamelist, FICS and Analysis widgets. ChessX<ref name="chessx"/> replaces [[Tcl]]/[[Tk (software)|Tk]] with [[Qt (software)|Qt]].<ref name="scidcousins"/> {{anchor|Scidb}}Scidb<ref name="scidb"/> (written in Tcl/C++), implements many chess variants and many read/write formats.<ref name="scidcousins"/>

Scid on the go is a browser for Scid database files for [[Android (operating system)|Android]].<ref name="scidonthego"/>

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| author-link =

| title = Zipf's law in the popularity distribution of chess openings

| journal = Bulletin of the Physical reviewReview lettersLetters

| volume = 103

| number = 21

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| year = 2009

| doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.218701

| arxivpmid = 0704.271120366071

| arxiv = 0704.2711

| bibcode = 2009PhRvL.103u8701B

}}

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| author = David Kirkby

| title = ChessDB - a free Chess Database

| url = httphttps://chessdb.sourceforge.net/

| date = July 15, 2011

| access-date = March 8, 2016

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| author = Steven Atkinson

| title = Scid vs. PC - Chess Database

| url = httphttps://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/

| date = January 28, 2016

| access-date = March 8, 2016

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| author = Jens Nissen

| title = ChessX - Free Chess Database

| url = httphttps://chessx.sourceforge.net/

| date = May 5, 2015

| access-date = March 8, 2016

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| author = Gregor Cramer

| title = Scidb

| url = httphttps://scidb.sourceforge.net/

| date = October 18, 2013

| access-date = March 8, 2016

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* [http://scidb.sourceforge.net Scidb]

* [http://chessdb.sourceforge.net ChessDB]

* [httphttps://jose-chesschessx.sourceforge.net/io Jose-chessChessX]

* [https://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ Jose-chess]

* [http://www.chessvideos.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6461 Video guide to using SCID]

[[Category:Free chess software]]

[[Category:Chess databases]]

[[Category:Software that uses Tk (software)]]