Welcome!

Welcome to the website for Scid ("Shane's Chess Information Database"), a chess database application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems.

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 Xboard or UCI compatible chess program, 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. With Scid you can also play against various engines, or on Internet (FICS). Scid also supports XFCC for server based Correspondence Chess at various sites.

Most menus and messages in Scid are available in 14 languages; thank you to all the translators. The latest full release is 4.3; see the Downloads page. This version was released February, 2011.

Chess training with Scid

Getting Help

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

Feedback

I hope you enjoy using Scid! Send any comments, suggestions, bug reports or other feedback to Scid's mailing list.