libscid A comprehensive library for programming chess tools and GUIs
😣 Ugh.	You've got chess'y ideas for tools and GUIs but 🔴 There's no comprehensive battle-tested chess library. 🔴 Projects either lack features or haven't been thoroughly tested. 🔴 There are ZERO ways to work with massive databases outside Scid (and commercial GUIs).
🤔 Oh!?	What if there was a mature chess library which allowed you to 🟢 Write efficient and high-performance code. 🟢 Focus on the problem you want to solve not how to parse PGN or access databases. 🟢 Code with confidence knowing that you're building on battle-tested foundations.
🚀 Scid!	libscidup brings you the best bits of Scid: ➕ Extremely efficient database codec; SCID5 and SCID4. ➕ Excellent PGN encoder and decoder ➕ Legendary search and filter. ➕ More than 20 years of testing out in the wild. And all of that as a standalone library.

An offspring of ScidUp which is a fork of the magnificent Scid.

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• Examples and Recipes ready for your copy-paste pleasure.
• API Documentation

TBD

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License

libscid is distributed under the GNU GPL v2 (see COPYING). Unless stated otherwise, modifications and additions in this repository are © their respective contributors (see Git history) and licensed under the same terms.