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scidCommunity -- a new, enhanced version of Scid

If you are looking for a free open source alternative to ChessBase for management of your chess database, analysis and Lichess/Chess.com integration, check out scidCommunity ( https://github.com/whelanh/scidCommunity ).  This is a fork with a large number of improvements and updates to the venerable Scid (and a related fork ScidvsPC).   Check latest Releases for a deb, rpm, exe, a MacOS and AppImage installable package. The deb has been tested against Ubuntu 24, the rpm against Fedora Rawhide, the AppImage against Fedora Kinoite (Rawhide) and the exe file against a Windows 11 virtual machine.  Linux users can install scidCommunity from Flathub . You will probably want to grant it access to your home directories for storing preferences and accessing your stored database. You can do that with the Flatseal flatpak, or with the terminal command flatpak override --user io.github.whelanh.scidCommunity --filesystem=home or flatpak override --user io.github.whelanh.scidcom...

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