Work with a collection of elements and tools for creating and running digital chess games. Check out the options for accessing a database of standard configurations, check them for bugs and other issues, enable Internet connections for player-versus-player sessions, etc.
Shane's Chess Information Database is a huge chess toolkit with extensive database, analysis and chess-playing features. Scid vs. 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.
v4.1 [Sep 2, 2013]
- Analysis Engine: exclude move(s) feature. Mouse-hover shows excluded moves.
- Analysis Engine: button to pop-up unrevealed buttons, and redo a few icons.
- Maintenance: Bulk strip Comments/Variations.
- Depth-based Engine Annotation improvements.
- Tweaked key bindings (including FilterReset Control-r and GameSave Control-s).
- Improved Background Colour feature.
- Add 'Find' entry boxes to more windows (including spelling corrections) , and widget can now use regular expressions.
- Splash widget console now has a simple command history (up-arrow).
- Better Repair Base feature (from Gregor).
- Include Gregors fast file opening with the windows 32-bit binary.
- Bind Control-Wheel to alter fixed font size (in some windows).
- Added Russian translation and updated German one.
- Enforce all tags (eg Event names, etc) to be less than 256 chars.
- Tweak Scid's Linux installer is to properly allow custom SHAREDIR.
- Windows drag and drop file open wasn't being init properly.
- Better handle language translations/encoding.
- Crosstable: bump max-player limit, tweak menus and bind right-click to menu, fix occasional allignment bug, and dont' automatically update (fixing busy cursor bug).
- Bump Opening Table limits, and minor bug-fixes.
- Added (Skak) Latex export-games feature .
- Update Xfcc to handle secure connections .
- Fix minor memory leaks, and dont slow game file compaction .
- Bestgames has a game load menu instead of 3 buttons.
- Refine docked window drag and drop.
- Many minor OS X tweaks.
- Trim whitespace from name fields in game save dialog.
- Add whitespace corrections to spelling.ssp, and also tweak Event spelling corrections.
- Tooltips for the obscure buttons in main buttonbar.
- Analysis add move as 'New Mainline' was broke.
- Always get confirmation for sorting via gamelist.
- Enforce illegalilty of saving Event Date without Game Date.
- Phalanx updates and minor tacgame, sergame fixes.
- Make a few windows have small font buttons.
- Shift Wheel(/ left-right wheel) scrolls a few widgets horizontally.
- Break up the long Book Tuning button menus.
- Many minor bugfixes and further tree-only filter fixes.
