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 Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM Alan Bennet via Scid-users < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/9/26 12:16, Harry Broeken via Scid-users wrote: > > It would be nice to have some kind of tree when there are games with > variations in the database. Perhaps some utility that would create > psuedo-games from the lines. > > Agree. This why I use the .bin books in Scid. > - pgn-extract --splitvariants > - polyglot -make-book -uniform > Now the book window includes variations, which the tree window does not. > > Also making a .bin book from an actual book, Scid book window shows what > lines are recommended/analyzed. > > -- Alan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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