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. 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. The latest full release is 3.6.1; see the Downloads page.

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 sgh@users.sourceforge.net. Or see the Author page for more contact details.

Sponsors

The following corporate sponsors have contributed to Scid: