I searched around the net for such things in the past, but didn't find anything that really helped me decide if Chessbase or HIARCS were worth the extra money over SCID. Personally I would love to read an in-depth comparison of SCID, HIARCS and Chessbase. Lichess is an interesting but rare example of something that is made as a hobby but also has a nice interface! (Though the help and documentation are on the skimpy side.) Things like making nice interfaces, writing tutorials for beginners, making comprehensive documentation - and for that matter making *comprehensible* documentation - such things tend to be neglected. The people who work on it do it for a hobby, and that means they work on what they enjoy working on, which may or may not be what the average user cares about most. It has gained around 500000 installs so far, with an average rating of 4.0 out of 5 in the play store. This is something that tends to be true about any kind of free software. How to Install DroidFish Chess for Windows PC or MAC: DroidFish Chess is an Android Board app developed by Peter Österlund and published on the Google play store. > But it's pretty old software and all the developers tend to focus on functionality. SCID is just a HUGE tool for a chess player and it cost >100€ less I like the online books/tablebases.īut still. What I can say about it from the product video, it seems to be pretty solid. Interested people can visit my SCID thread at talkchess (HD pieces, new board colors, latest databases (2,63 million games) and more:īut nothing is wrong with HIARCS if you like it. But it's pretty old software and all the developers tend to focus on functionality. Ok apart from the board, the user interface is pretty gray and emotionless and/or (mostly) functional. I sent them to the developers and they probably will be included in future SCID releases (or already if you compile your own dev snapshots). They were all blurry or pixelated, so I made my own (I made existing chess fonts ready to use in SCID).
I hated the piece sets that came with SCID.
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