Happy new year to you too, Fulvio! I have been using Scid since 2015. Every. Single. Day.
I play **a lot** of correspondence chess, e.g. ICCF ( https://www.iccf.com/player?id=290074). I also frequently play over-the-board friendly-yet-serious matches. Scid allows me to: - Maintain a few databases, such as my own and favourite players' games, along with plenty of comments and annotations and analysis. - Navigate the openings. - Analyse whole games or individual moves using many engines with many different configurations. Scid does an excellent job for me. So much that I do not feel any need to even consider getting ChessBase products. https://www.bahmanm.com/2024/07/my-awesome-scid-setup.html Thank you and all the other maintainers for doing such a fantastic job! PS: I have been working on a similar idea to what you described. That is, upgrading Scid's codebase, dropping legacy or unused features, tackling technical debt, etc. If you find that useful, I can work on back-porting relevant changes to Scid. Please see this work-in-progress repository: https://github.com/bahmanm/scid-up -- Bahman Movaqar (he/him) https://linktr.ee/bahmanm On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 at 19:02, Fulvio via Scid-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Happy New Year to everyone. > I asked an AI (Claude-Opus) to modernize the crosstable code to C++20. > While reviewing it, one line struck me: Copyright 2001 Shane Hudson. > In 25 years, so many things have changed: online play on Lichess or > Chess.com, live video streaming of games, ... The days of ICC feel far > away. > Scid was the best alternative available on Linux, my main use was to > prepare before a game against an opponent. I used three opening trees > and gamelists: my opponent's games, games with Elo > 2200, and all games. > But I still remember the frustration: calculating statistics took > forever, it wasn't possible to move around the board until it finished, > and there was only a single gamelist (I used 2 temporary databases as a > workaround). > Now that I only play the occasional online game, I use Scid solely to > review games from major events, like the recent World Blitz > Championship. Although Lichess offers web Stockfish, I prefer the faster > local version. I also have a small database where I copy and annotate > the games I like the most. > There are features I don't use and haven't been updated in years, such > as the FICS module or training functions like solving tactical puzzles. > They're simply not comparable to what Lichess offers today. > I'd like to understand what your uses of Scid are. Knowing which > features are still valuable would help me with the cleanup of code that > has become obsolete. > Bye, > Fulvio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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