Meet libscid: Scid’s Backend as a Library
Updated: 2026-10 | Published: 2026-10libscidI’ve been using Scid since 2012, and I cannot imagine chess without this incredibly rich piece of software!I also do a lot of batch analysis of games. And, for years, that meant working on PGN files and then manually importing the games into my Scid databases. I wanted to script that work and have my own tools interact directly with the database.Scid had so much of what I needed already. The difficulty was getting at it from outside the application.…