Scid is a chess database application (cross-platform, for Unix/Linux and Windows) with many search and database maintenance features. Scidb Chess Database Application. SCID is an open-source chess database that has a lot of the options available in commercial databases. It has also a reasonable UI and can run on Windows, Linux and Mac. Running on Linux and Mac is a big advantage in itself, as most commercial database and playing software are only for Windows. There are multiple projects related to Scid, all using the si4 database format. ChessDB was the first Scid fork. PC has been in development for five years to 2014, and has an improved interface. Its major new feature is a Computer Tournament mode and also includes rewritten Gamelist, FICS and Analysis widgets.
For example, when I view the properties of my target, I see ' C: Program Files (x86) Scid vs PC-4.10 bin scid.exe ' If I edit that line and add e: chess pgn collins.pgn to the end of it, when the programs loads it will automatically load my collins.pgn file, which is a small database of all of my tournament games, located on my E: drive. PC is a usability and bug-fix fork of Scid. You can play chess on the Internet or against the computer, you can join online tournaments and test your chess skills. You may want to check out more software, such as Bulletproof Public PC, PC Disk Clone or Recover Mac Files on Windows PC, which might be related to Scid vs PC.
Linux , Unix
Scid vs. PC requires Wish (Tcl/Tk) 8.5 or later and a C++ compiler.
Note Wish 8.5.10 has severe bugs, and many versions of Tk-8.6.x have *severe* memory leaks.To avoid, compile with Gregor's tk::text (patches/gregors_tktext_inline.patch).
Example packages required include 'tcl, tk, tcl-devel, tk-devel' and'gcc-c++ , libstdc++'; but of course will vary with your distribution.The default installation directory is /usr/local, which is generally empty, but anyversion of Scid here will be overwritten. To install into /usr (for eg)use ./configure BINDIR=/usr/bin/ SHAREDIR=/usr/share/scid/
Installing from source:
Debian / Mint / Ubuntu users may be interested in thislink.
Extra chess pieces (such as Berlin) are now enabled by default for Wish 8.6, but 8.5 requires installing TkImg. Sound support requires Snack.
If your distro does not provide these packages ('tkimg', 'tcl-snack'), you can install from source using these links (both of which have fixes applied).
TkImg,Snack.
If your distro does not provide these packages ('tkimg', 'tcl-snack'), you can install from source using these links (both of which have fixes applied).
TkImg,Snack.
Windows
Windows installation simply requires downloading theexecutable, and following the prompts.
The configuration files, including the chess engine list, are stored in the Scid vs PCbinconfig directory, and may be copiedover from old versions to make upgrading easier. On Windows 7, these files are mirrored in C:Users[USERNAME]AppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram FilesScid vs PC
Mac OS X
Scid Chess
TheScidvsMac-4.21 app should include everything you need. Simply drag and drop the App into /Applications (or similar).
Due to complicated build reasons, only Yosemite (OS X 10.10) andlater are now supported. Additionally, Catalina has removed 32-bit appsupport, and it is only supported by our beta ScidvsMac-x64 app,as 64-bit Wish is not as robust as the old version.
Scid For Pc Versus Scid For Mac Air
To compile from source - once you have XCode installed - please read ScidvsMac-HowTo.rtfd in the source tarball for some older information.
Users upgrading may have to remove (or edit) $HOME/.scidvspc/config/engines.datto properly configure the chess engines.