Hello Fulvio, I am definitely appreciative of any efforts to modernize SCID. I am very much in the same boat as Bahman, and am delighted to hear I’m not the only ICCF player who loves SCID and uses it instead of Chessbase!
I am the Members’ Games editor for the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association, and I use SCID (along with various other FOSS tools) to select and analyze games for discussion in my column. The statistics, search, and opening tree functions are indispensable parts of my workflow. I also use CQL, which contains a fork of the SCID PGN parser, in searching endgame positions. I recently figured out how to adapt it so it will run on iOS, so I can play with CQL on my phone. https://www.gadycosteff.com/cql/ https://github.com/lamech/cql If it would be helpful, I’m happy to help with testing and/or build automation/pipelines, as that’s what I do professionally. Best regards, Dan On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 11:07 AM Bahman Movaqar via Scid-users < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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