I mainly use SCID vs PC, but haven't been keeping up with things. I used to use SCID but it wasn't getting updates, so moved to that option instead
Has someone done a comparison of SCID, SCID vs PC, ChessDb, and ChessX?
I'm using SCID vs PC and have no real complaints but wonder if there is something better. One thing I like about SCID vs PC is the support for my Novag Citrine. It allows me to input using a real board.
ChessDB is another version of Scid. It has some useful features -- most notably making it much easier to strip tags. But they just came out with a new version of Scid a few days ago, and it's pretty handy. It's *fast*, that's for sure. Nothing loads slower than Scid vs. PC (even though it's a very useful program) and now nothing loads faster than regular Scid.
ChessX isn't useful day-to-day, but it does allow you to open books in CB, Scid, Polyglot and Arena formats. There's also Arena and Tarrasch, as well as Lucas Chess. That last one is a bit of a diamond in the rough. It looks like there's almost nothing to it, but that's just the weird design of the menu system.
Right now I have Scid vs PC and also Chessx. I am trying to navigate a database of 163 games that I filtered through png-extract.
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/
It's a great command line tool for filtering out games by criteria to limit it to the relevant games you want.
But then I still need to choose which database software to view the games and then analyze them how I want. If I find which software works the best for that, then I will reply here.
I'm wondering what the best open source chess database program is?