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scidCommunity

Community-enhanced chess database and analysis application.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

scidCommunity is a board game, available on Linux.

Gameplay elements described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: tournaments.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Community-enhanced chess database and analysis application” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “New feature to open Lichess broadcast tournament games” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of scidCommunity is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

scidCommunity is a community-driven fork of Scid (Shane's Chess Information Database), focused on adding enhancements while maintaining full compatibility with existing Scid databases. It allows you to store, organize, and search through large collections of chess games with support for any compatible UCI chess engine. Key enhancements in scidCommunity: Engine analysis controls with configurable depth and time limits Integrated TWIC (The Week in Chess) game downloads Direct game uploads to Lichess and Chess.com from the PGN window Tablebase integration via Lichess 7-man endgames Additional theme options (Sand and cobalt2) New feature to open Lichess broadcast tournament games Improved Header Search with saveable search layouts for frequently-used parameters This fork welcomes community suggestions and aims to be responsive to user feature requests. If you've wished for specific functionality in your chess database workflow, scidCommunity may be for you.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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