Thursday, January 09, 2020

Chess Software

This post came about while looking for programs that hold historical chess games and software to use or rather, replay these historical games.

The first step was searching for "free chess database" and found below.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/world-largest-offline-chess-database-for-free

On that site, codekiddy has collected over 30million games over 500 years.
So how do we use his database? He says:
"I've been using Scid vs PC program to manage database and therefore the database is in scid format, meaning you can download it and do with it what ever you want, such as importing more games."

So the second search is for SCID which led to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane%27s_Chess_Information_Database
http://scid.sourceforge.net/
That is actually a software that can potentially use codekiddy's 500 year cess database.
But wait, codekiddy actually says "Scid vs PC" as the name of the program. This program also appears in the wiki page reference, leading next to.....

... the third item "Scid vs PC".....
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/

Now to try out these stuff......

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