If Hiarcs looks interesting, you may want to check this out first and see if it does what you need. This is one I haven't tried, but from screen shots, it looks fairly similar to Hiarcs, so would seem to mitigate my grievances with the SCID UI at least. The "Deep" version with endgame tables and multi-processor support is $100, and you can also subscribe to their professional tournament opening book (which I have tried, and I do like).Ĥ) ChessX - this was recommended as another free alternative by /u/Antaniserse in the comments below. But that said, it is quite good, has a lot of great features, and I like it a lot. I chose this one because I'm on a Mac and it's the only commercial database available for Mac that runs natively. I like VMWare myself, but personally, didn't want to have to load it up every time I wanted to use my chess database.ģ) Hiarcs Chess Explorer - this is a pretty under-rated chess database imho. Note: This will work on the mac under an emulator, and there are lots of ways to emulate a PC on a Mac. Base version is $100, and goes up from there as you add features. Both free, so no reason not to try out both and see if they work for you.Ģ) Chessbase - this is the obvious commercial option on the PC, and it's what many people use. SCID is more focused on chess database features, and SCIDvPC/Mac is focused more on UI and engine v. In other words, I love that it exists, but I don’t love the UI.ĮDIT: /u/PossibleOatmeal correctly pointed out that SCIDvPC/Mac is a fork of SCID, but that they serve different purposes. Upside: it's free, has a ton of features, and let's you plug in UCI-compatible engines. From what I understand, SCIDvPC and SCIDvMac are both later versions of SCID with more features. This is an open source chess database, available for free. You have three obvious options that I'm aware of (though likely others for Windows): And in 2018, your path to a high quality set up is actually pretty easy and relatively inexpensive (and potentially free). Feel free to mention anything I missed in the comments below.įor those who have been primarily using lichess/, and want to dig into chess a bit further, having a database can be extremely useful. But the things I did mention do work on both. Important point: I’m on a Mac, so there may be other options available for Windows that I’m not aware of or didn’t dig into enough to bother including. This is way more up to date research than what’s currently in the FAQ regarding SCID/Databases, so hopefully this will shortcut the work for anyone just digging in. Over the summer, I got back into chess, and the first thing I did was to re-tool my chess set up, and ended up doing a fair amount of research that may as well not go to waste. Explorer - this folder contains files specific to the HIARCS Chess Explorer GUI.I feel like I’ve answered this question 2-3 times now, so figured I’d just make a post about it.Engine Data - this folder contains the engine data folders, HIARCS 14 will save its learn files here.Documentation - this folder contains the PDF manual for the product.Databases - this folder contains the packaged databases which are included with HIARCS Chess Explorer.Books - this folder contains the books HIARCS uses, book subscribers can add books issued as part of the Book Subscription to this folder and HIARCS 14 engines will automatically use the latest book.The HIARCS Chess Explorer user files are installed in your Documents folder where you will find the "HIARCS Chess" folder is installed and contains the following sub folders: HIARCS 14 WCSC - this folder contains all the files of the single processor version of HIARCS 14 WCSC.Deep HIARCS 14 WCSC - this folder contains all the files of the multiprocessor version of HIARCS 14 WCSC.You can drag the application to the Mac Dock bar to enable easy launch from the Dock bar in future. HIARCS Chess Explorer application package - this is the chess application you run by double clicking it.Inside this folder you will find the following folders installed: The application and engines are installed in the \Applications folder. On Mac OS X the HIARCS Chess Explorer installer creates the following folders: This section explains where the files are installed. When HIARCS Chess Explorer is installed it creates a number of folders for the Application itself, chess engines and data files including databases.
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