SCID2(6)

🎀 SCID2 — Games Manual, section 6 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the SCID2(6) page, filed under the Games Manual 💖 this is the little doc that covers a whole fam of chess programs, and yes, there's a lot of them, but we're gonna get through it together. grab a snack. 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

here's the whole squad, no one left out:

scid, pgnfix, pgnscid, sc_addmove, sc_eco, sc_epgn, sc_import,
sc_remote, sc_spell, sc_tree, scidlet, scidpgn, scmerge, spliteco,
tcscid, tkscid, twic2scid

— chess database and utility programs. that's the vibe. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

scid

just like that. one word. iconic. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, real talk: this manual page documents briefly Shane's Chess Information Database. it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and here's why — the original program doesn't have a manual page of its own. 😭 (not me having to write one myself.) but it does have documentation in a README file, which lives at:

/usr/share/doc/scid/README.gz

and it also has extensive HTML documentation, which you can find at:

/usr/share/doc/scid/html/Index.html

so if you want the deep lore, bestie, that's where it's at. ✨

Now. What even is Scid? Scid is a chess database application. with it you can:

• browse databases of chess games
• edit games
• search for games by various criteria

and the way it does it? Scid uses its own compact and fast database format 🏎️ but don't worry, it can convert to and from PGN. flexible queen behavior, honestly.

And the command scid? That starts the graphical user interface. 🖥️✨ go click some pieces.

lowkey the README and the HTML docs are your besties here — this page is the brief version, and it says so itself. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Scid was written by Shane Hudson <sgh@users.sourceforge.net>. and this manual page was written by Peter van Rossum <petervr@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 🫶

and that's the whole page, babes. this one's dated February 13, 2001, from the Games Manual (that's SCID2(6) if you're keeping receipts). periodt. 💖🌈