The above, at least for me, are sufficient to move to the available commercial options. SCID and Icofy could somehow cooperate, that would do the job. CB does this with the Mega DB packages and its online database. a big reference database that is automatically being updated. back-solving in auto annotate but it is ok, one can use something else for this. bin books which are used to annotate the opening is a good start but I very much prefer having a reference database. annotate games with a reference database in mind, the. Chessbase draws a chessboard and has arrows on it to demostrate typical plans for a given position. nice presentation for the opening report, e.g. A coherent way to store a repertoire, track new games played in this repertoire and train it. What I consider essential and SCID doesn't have: I am using SCID as well but I will switch to a commercial product soon.
Does anyone have the full version of chessbase and like to review its features? SCID has many reporting tools like chessbase but its difficult for me to make a fair comparison since I only have the free version of chessbase. I have compared only 2 features of scid vs chessbase above (opening tree and annotate). SCID has its own format but games are either distributed in pgn or chessbase format.ĭoes anyone have the full version of chessbase to compare with scid? Scid is free at Also to bring a database into scid, in most cases, would involve importing a huge pgn file. It seems that the major advantage of chessbase is in the actual database it provides. I can automatically have the engine annotate all blunders made by one or both sides. The most important feature for me: auto-annotate only exists in scid. This is probably because scid does not show all info at once but I find scid to be easier going through the tree.
I also noticed that the "reference" tab in chessbase does not update as fast as the opening tree window in scid. With scid 4.0 you can manage as large database as you have with no restrictions. I have a copy of chessbase light (the crippled free version) and I see no point in anyone using this version at all except to evaluate since it does not allow one to edit the datatbases. As of writing - I believe SCID is one of the best database software out there - especially considering its price (free) vs say chessbase.