Tutorials

I Call It The Infant Survival Swimming… For Chess Players… Tweak # after the famous infant survival swimming taught to infants in order for them to quickly learn how to swim. How exactly does this work? Well the infants are simply tossed in the pool while the mothers plug their ears, close their eyes and shout “lah lah lah lah lah I’m not listening!” for ten minutes. At the end of the ten minutes the babies that are still floating get to live… or something along those lines. The tweak I’m about to show you sort of follows this logic but far less gruesome.

So, your meager winnings from the local chess tourneys ain’t enough to purchase ChessBase huh? Well lucky for you you don’t have to be a celebrity the likes of Big Hickey to get the same quality education and training. Meet SCID! Otherwise known as Shane’s Chess Information Database. This miraculous piece of open source software has all the bells and whistles you’ll need to get the job done. The price? A big fat learning curve along with plenty time to set up and familiarize yourself with this brilliant and feature-rich tool. Admittedly, a pretty steep price depending on who you ask. But if you enjoy chess as much as I do this can actually be kind of fun, and hopefully I can help you with that.