Click on the links below to download Scid files, or visit the file release page to see all downloadable files.

For installation assistance, see the Installation section at the bottom of this page.

1. Windows:
   You can download Scid with a Windows setup or in a form that does not need any installation (and that can run directly from an USB key). If you've installed an earlier version of Scid before; there is no need to uninstall the old release first, but engines configuration will be saved and replaced with a basic one (for engines embeded with Scid). 

   • setup_scid-3.7.3.exe (April 2009), an executable installer for the multi-language version of Scid.

   After installing Scid from the above installer program, you will find the main scid.exe program file (and other Scid utilities) in the bin folder under the folder where you installed Scid (the default is "C:\Program Files\Scid"). Also, you should see a group called Scid in your Start menu and a shortcut icon for Scid on your desktop, unless you checked the "Don't create any icons" option during installation. Scid can be run from an USB key by simply copying C:\Program Files\Scid to it.

2. Linux / Unix:

   • scid-3.7.3.tar.bz2 (April 2009), a Bzip2-compressed tarfile of all the Scid source and additional data files. This package includes all Scid Pocket source files.
   • RPM packages for Fedora are available at http://katrine.lpi.ru/kalenkov/
3. Pocket PC:
   • scidpocket-1.3.Arm.CAB(March 2008), an installer CAB file. Copy this file on your Pocket PC (device or SD Card) and open it : it will be installed and an icon will appear in the Games sub-menu under Program. Please read carefully installation instructions available at Scid Pocket page.
4. Mac OS:

   You can get packages for Mac at http://cachivaches.chauca.net/scid/

5. Player Information / spellcheck data:

   • spelling_2009_1.zip (january 2009).
     This file is provided by Franz Nagl and contains spell check data.
   • ratings_2009_1.zip (january 2009).
     This version includes rating history information.
   Note: The file ratings.ssp is a much larger version of spelling.ssp (the spellcheck file that comes with Scid downloads above) which has the same 10,000+ player names but also has the Elo rating history of each player. You will only need ratings.ssp instead of spelling.ssp if you want to use the Add Elo ratings maintenance command in Scid. If not, don't waste your time downloading it.

6. Photo data:

   • photos2007.zip (Dec 2007)
   Scid can show a photo whenever a game by a player with a photograph is loaded. To install the photos, download photos.zip and extract its files to your Scid user options directory (~/.scid in Unix; the same directory as scid.exe in Windows) and run Scid. The Zip file contains two player photo files: gm.spf has photos for nearly 100 grandmasters and other famous players, and historic.spf contains more than 30 historic (pre-1930s) players.

7. Scidlet opening books: last updated January 2003

   • scidlet20k.zip (Jan 2003, 125 KB; 20,000 positions)
   • scidlet40k.zip (Jan 2003, 240 KB; 40,000 positions)
   The Scid packages above contain a small (8,000 position) opening book for Scidlet; here are larger books with 20,000 and 40,000 positions.

Installation

For Windows users: the Windows download of Scid is an installer application; just run it to install Scid. If you want to compile Scid on Windows yourself, download the source package; it includes Makefiles for MinGW, Cygwin and VC++.

To compile Scid for Linux or other Unix operating systems, you must have Tcl/Tk (8.5 or newer is required) and a C++ compiler. You should be able to compile Scid just by typing ./configure and then make in the scid directory. If that does not work, you may need to edit the Makefile. If all else fails, just ask for help.