GetResources

There are many gratis or libre resources to help you work with SCID.

• Chess Games
• Chessplayers' Files
• Special Databases
• Chess Engines
• Chess Clients
• Chess Publishing
• Scid Cousins

Chess Games

Most chess games come in PGN. You can view or import these collections in SCID.

Mark Crowther’s The Week in Chess (TWIC) publishes games played each week.
Norm Pollock's page features a well-curated collection of games between top players.

Chessplayers' Files

Franz Nagl compiles information about players: ELO ratings, photos, and names.
Go get the latest data in SCID's files repository.
See also [HowToShowPlayersPhotos].
For more information, consult the README.

Special Databases

Kiril Kryukov’s Endgame Tablebase Online provides endgame databases, along with all there is to know about them.

ProDeo knowledge: http://rebel13.nl/dl.html?file=dl/ProDeo-Knowledge.7z

SCID with Knowledge Base

TODO. Exercises. Studies. Polyglot books.

Chess Engines

SCID comes equiped with chess engines.
Here are three free or open chess engines we like: Critter, Firenzina and Stockfish.
A new one is Leela Chess Zero, an open source neural network based chess engine.

Chess Clients

There are many places online to play chess for free;
SCID allows you to connect to the venerable Free Internet Chess Server.
Chess client alternatives include Martin Blume’s Arena, Felipe Bergo’s eboard, and PyChess.
Please refer to FICS’ clients’ list for other choices.

To play on FICS, we strongly recommend Timeseal, to reduce netlag and win more games.

There are lots of resources on computer chess out there.

See Ron Murawski's Computer Chess Wiki for more information.

See CCRL 40/40 for a complete list, standings, and games.

Jim Ablett's Winboard Chess Projects provides compiled Win executables for many engines.

Julien Marcel's Macchess provides compiled OSX binaries for many engines.

Fabien Letouzey’s Polyglot is the command-line tool to create opening books for chess engines.

Chess Publishing

Paolo Casaschi’s PGN4Web is a magnificent Javascript game viewer for websites, blogs and live broadcasts.

The Nørresundby Chess Club EnPassant collects resources for chess publishing.

Scid Cousins

Scid being Open Source, everyone can fork Scid’s code and create his own freeware.
Here are some people who did:a

Gerhard Kalab’s Scid on the Go lets you use Scid for an Android tablet.

Jens Nissen’s ChessX replaces Tcl/Tk with the Qt language.

Steven Atkinson’s scidvspc has a very slick Tcl interface.

Georg Cramer's Scidb implements many chess variants and many read/write formats.

Lars Balzer’s Chess Links compiles all the chess resources on the Internet, and beyond.
Edward Winter's Chess Notes is the most amazing website on Chess history.

[Maurice]

Tx for the updates folks!