Monsterbase Update to 2024

Almost 5 million games. I've tried to stay away from short time control games. I'll be working on it some more in the future. Some games from 2025 are already in the data.

 Click Here to goto the original post. Click on the new link to download the database. It's a zip file containing the 3 SCID vs PC files. Place them in a directory on your computer and open the database as normal or as a tree. Please comment, subscribe, share with friends. I am motivated to create more content if I know someone wants this information. Thank You.

Upgrading SCID vs PC

Upgrading SCID vs PC  

When you install a new version of SCID vs PC you loose all your setup and customization. This is how to recover your setup to the new version. Click the Video Link to watch a Youtube video showing how I perform the upgrade.

Video Link

Navigate in a file manager to the SCID vs PC folders. Open the "bin" folder.

Copy and replace the contents of the following folders from the old version into the new version.

Setup

Data

Engines

Photos

Pieces

Config

Next copy but do not replace files in the Bin folder. You may not have some of these depending on how you have customized your setup. 

This should transfer any features and layouts you have installed in the old version to the new.

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See also these blog posts on setting up features of SCID vs PC.

Players Pictures

Adding Chess Engines

Databases

Wrist Chess (Lichess on your watch).

 You can play chess on your watch. The Google play store app can be found by clicking the link below.

CLICK HERE

Here is a short Youtube video showing how it works. It connects to the Lichess website. Let me know what you think. 

Tournament Game on GameKnot

I'm playing in a tournament on the Gameknot website. I finished 1st in my group for round 1. So on to round two. Here is a win against the player who finished second in our group. He will also advance to the next round.

Play chess online

A Game On Lichess

I played one rated and one unrated game today. At the age of 70 years the short time controls leave me exhausted. Here is the rated game my opponent had a provisional rating of 1789. We both had many mistakes. Time control was 10+5 (10 minutes for the game + 5 seconds per move). I had a slight advantage early then blundered into a lost game only to recover on a couple of blunders by my opponent. Here is the computer analysis graph from the lichess.org site. 

 Another place I will be playing is on the Free Internet Chess Server ( FICS ). They have been around since 1998. A spinoff from the Internet Chess Club ( ICC ). You can read the history HERE.

FICS: Free Internet Chess Server

Over time I'll publish some different ways to connect and play. You can play from their website or through a Graphical User Interface. Babaschess is one such GUI. You will find links to this and other GUI on the site. Look for me  user name rwmerrell.

ChessKnot One Place I Play

 

Play chess online

One place you can find me playing chess online...