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Scid Help: 
Quick Guide to using Scid
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<h1>Quick Guide to using Scid</h1>
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Scid is a chess database application; with it you can browse
databases of chess games, edit games and <a href="Searches.html">search</a>
for games by various criteria.
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Scid uses its own special three-file <a href="Formats.html">database format</a>
which is very compact and fast, but it can convert to and from
the standard PGN (Portable Game Notation) format.
Scids <a href="PGN.html">PGN window</a> displays the text of the current game in
PGN format.
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You can use Scid to add chess games to a database, using the keyboard or
mouse to enter moves. See the help page on <a href="Moves.html">entering chess moves</a>
for more details.
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You can also use Scid as a <a href="PGN.html">PGN</a> file browser, by pasting
PGN text into Scids <a href="Import.html">Import</a> window or by opening a PGN file
in Scid.
However, PGN files cannot be edited by Scid (it opens them read-only) and
they use more memory and are slower to load, so for large PGN files it
is recommended that you create a Scid database from them first with the
<a href="Pgnscid.html">pgnscid</a> utility.
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The <a href="MainWindow.html">main window</a>
of Scid (with the graphical chess board) shows details of
the active game and database. At any time, you can have up to four
databases open (five including the <a href="Clipbase.html">clipbase</a>),
and each will have its own active game.
(A game numbered 0 indicates a scratch game that is not part of the
actual database).
You can switch between the open databases with the
<a href="Menus.html\#File">File menu</a>.
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For more information, please read the other help pages listed in the
<a href="Index.html">Help Index</a>.
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See the <a href="Author.html">contact information</a> page if you need to contact the
author of Scid.
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<p><center><font size=-1>(Updated: Scid 3.1, December 2001)</font></center></p>

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