Welcome to Scidb

Scidb ("Scidb is a Chess Information Data Base") is a chess database application for Linux/Unix and Windows. Scidb is inspired by Scid ("Shane's Chess Information Database"), but it is a completely new development.

News

The second public preview version is released (see Download).

Scidb has a newly designed homepage. It is tested with all modern browser: Firefox 4+, Safari 4+, Chrome 6+, Opera 11+, Konqueror 4+, and Internet-Explorer 9+. With older browser versions these pages do not have the intended look.

What's new in second version?

  • Game history

  • Help dialog (with a few help pages)

  • New file selection box with extraneous functions:

    • Delete database
    • Rename database
    • Duplicate database
    • Create new folder
    • Selection of database encoding

  • Automatic detection of database encoding

  • Enhanced Scidb database format; now it exists a new comment type: move information. This provides a compact storage and, in a future version, a facilitated input.

  • Automatic upgrade to the new database format

  • Revised export dialog

  • Undo/redo in comment editor

  • Improved behavior of the HTML window:

    • Double buffering for flicker-free display
    • Automatic hyphenation

  • Accelerated popup of the game save dialog

  • Improved tournament table:

    • Additional scoring system "Bilbao" (three points for a win)
    • Additional tie-breaks

  • The export to .si3/.si4 now offers a selection of the PGN-Tags (a restriction of the tags is accelerating the position tree)

  • Selection dialog of database symbols is revised

  • New feature in game editor: copy/move comments between different languages

  • Drop-down shadows (experimental)

  • Partial translation into Hungarian; the translation is still in progress

  • Ths Spanish translation is taken out temporary due to incompleteness. Volunteers for the translation: please look at Wanted

  • UNIX man pages

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