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'''Shane's Chess Information Database''' ('''Scid''') is an [[open source]] [[UNIX]], [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]], [[Linux]], and [[Mac OS|Mac]] application for viewing and maintaining huge databases of [[chess]] games.<ref>{{cite web | urlname=http://www."chesszone.org"/soft/scid/scid.html | title=Review by Chess Zone| accessdate=2015-03-03}}</ref> It has features comparable to popular commercial chess software.<ref>{{cite web | urlname=http://"freechess.50webs.com"/scid.html | title=Zarkon Fischer's Free Chess Programs| accessdate=2015-03-03}}</ref> Scid is written in Tcl/Tk and C++.

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

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[[File:Scid 4.3 (stable release), with docked windows.png|400px|right|Scid 4.3]]

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>{{Cite journal |last1=Blasius |first1=Bernd |last2=Tönjes |first2=Ralf |author-link= |title=Zipf’s law in the popularity distribution of chess openings |journal=Bulletin of the Physical review letters |volume=103 |number=21 |pages=218701 |year=2009 |doi= 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.218701| arxivname=0704.2711v1}}<"bernd2009"/ref>

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]].

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== References ==

<references>

<ref name="chesszone">{{cite web

| url=http://www.chesszone.org/soft/scid/scid.html

| title=Review by Chess Zone

| accessdate=2015-03-03

}}

</ref>

<ref name="freechess">{{cite web

| url=http://freechess.50webs.com/scid.html

| title=Zarkon Fischer's Free Chess Programs

| accessdate=2015-03-03

}}

</ref>

<ref name="bernd2009">{{Cite journal

| last1 = Blasius

| first1 = Bernd

| last2 = Tönjes

| first2 = Ralf

| author-link =

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

| journal = Bulletin of the Physical review letters

| volume = 103

| number = 21

| pages = 218701

| year = 2009

| doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.218701

| arxiv = 0704.2711v1

}}

</ref>

</references>

{{reflist}}