scidCommunity Help: Menus

# scidCommunity menus

### File

- [New]: Creates a new empty scidCommunity database.
- [Open]: Opens an existing scidCommunity database.
- [Finder]: Opens the File Finder.
- [Bookmarks]: Bookmarks and bookmark functions.
- [Open Base as Tree]: Opens a database as a tree view.
- [Open Recent Base as Tree]: Opens a recent database as a tree view.
- [Open Lichess Tournament]: Opens a Lichess tournament for analysis.
- [Import Lichess Games]: Imports games from Lichess.
- [Import Chess.com Games]: Imports games from Chess.com.
- [Exit]: Exits scidCommunity.

### Database

- [Close]: Closes the current scidCommunity database.
- [Load at Startup]: Toggles whether the current database loads at startup.
- [Copy All Games]: Submenu to copy all games to another database.

- [New Database]: Creates a new database and copies all games.
- [Other Databases]: Lists available databases to copy to.

- [Export Filter]: Exports games matching the current filter.

- [PGN]: Exports to PGN format.
- [HTML]: Exports to HTML format.
- [HTML with JavaScript]: Exports to interactive HTML format.

- [Import File]: Submenu to import PGN files into databases.
- [Maintenance]: Database maintenance utilities.

- [Maintenance Window]: Opens/closes the maintenance window.
- [Compact Database]: Compacts the current database.
- [Classify Games]: Classifies all games with ECO codes.
- [Name Editor]: Opens/closes the name editor window.
- [Strip Tags]: Strips unwanted tags from games.
- [Delete Twins]: Marks twin games for deletion.
- [Update Twin Checker]: Updates the twin checker.
- [Cleaner]: Opens the database cleaner window.

- [Name Maintenance]: Spell checking and rating allocation for names.

- [Player Names]: Spell checks player names.
- [Event Names]: Spell checks event names.
- [Site Names]: Spell checks site names.
- [Round Names]: Spell checks round names.
- [Add Elo Ratings]: Allocates Elo ratings to players.

- [Base 1/2/3/...]: These commands let you switch between available database slots and the clipbase database.

### Edit

- [Undo]: Undoes the last action.
- [Redo]: Redoes the previously undone action.
- [Setup Board]: Sets the starting position for the current game.
- [Copy Board as FEN]: Copies the current board position as FEN to clipboard.
- [Paste Board from FEN]: Pastes a board position from FEN in clipboard.
- [Copy Game as PGN]: Copies the current game as PGN to clipboard.
- [Paste Game from Clipboard]: Pastes a game from clipboard in PGN format.
- [Strip]: Strips elements from the current game.

- [Comments]: Strips all comments from the current game.
- [Variations]: Strips all variations from the current game.
- [Beginning]: Strips moves from the beginning to current position.
- [End]: Strips moves from current position to the end.

- [Reset Clipbase]: Empties the clipbase so it contains no games.
- [Copy to Clipbase]: Copies the current game to the clipbase database.
- [Paste from Clipbase]: Pastes the active game of the clipbase to be the active game of the current database.

### Game

- [New Game]: Resets the active game to an empty state, discarding any unsaved changes.
- [Reload this game]: Reloads the current game, discarding any changes made.
- [Save: Replace game]: Saves the current game, replacing its original version in the database.
- [Save: Add new game]: Saves the current game as a new game, appending to the end of the database.
- [Export Current Game]: Exports the current game to various formats.

- [PGN]: Exports to PGN format.
- [HTML]: Exports to HTML format.
- [HTML with JavaScript]: Exports to interactive HTML format.

- [Load First Game]: Loads the first game in the filter.
- [Load Previous Game]: Loads the previous game in the filter.
- [Load Next Game]: Loads the next game in the filter.
- [Load Last Game]: Loads the last game in the filter.
- [Load Random Game]: Loads a random game from the filter.
- [Identify opening]: Finds the deepest position in the current game that is in the ECO file.
- [Goto move number]: Goes to the specified move number in the current game.
- [Find novelty]: Finds the first move of the current game that has not been played before.

### Search

- [Current board]: Searches for the current board position.
- [Header]: Searches by header information such as player names.
- [Material/Pattern]: Searches by material or chessboard patterns.
- [Player List]: Opens/closes the player list window.
- [Tournament Finder]: Opens/closes the Tournament Finder window.
- [Using search file]: Searches using settings from a SearchOptions file.

### Play

- [Serious Game]: Configures and starts a serious game against an engine.
- [Tactical Game]: Configures and starts a tactical game against an engine.
- [FICS Training]: Configures connection to the Free Internet Chess Server.
- [Training]: Training submenu.

- [Openings Training]: Configures openings training.
- [Tactics Training]: Configures tactics training.
- [Review Game]: Starts game review mode.
- [Calvar Training]: Configures calculation of variations training.

### Windows

- [Comment Editor]: Opens/closes the Comment Editor window.
- [PGN window]: Opens/closes the PGN window.
- [Show Game Info]: Toggles display of game information panel.
- [Game List window]: Opens/closes the Game List window.
- [Database Switcher]: Opens/closes the Database Switcher window, which lets you switch to another database or copy games between databases easily.
- [Crosstable]: Constructs a tournament crosstable for the current game.
- [ECO Browser]: Opens/closes the ECO Browser window.
- [Statistics window]: Opens/closes the Filter statistics window which gives a win/loss summary of the games in the filter.
- [Tree window]: Opens/closes the tree window.
- [Book window]: Opens/closes the opening book window.
- [Score Graph]: Refreshes the score graph.

### Tools

- [Configure Engines]: Opens the engine configuration dialog to set up chess engines.
- [Start Engine 1]: Starts the first chess analysis engine.
- [Start Engine 2]: Starts the second chess analysis engine.
- [Analysis Window]: Opens the analysis window.
- [Filter Graph]: Opens/closes the filter graph window.
- [Absolute Filter Graph]: Opens/closes the absolute filter graph window.
- [Opening Report]: Generates an opening report for the current position.
- [Piece Tracker]: Opens the piece tracker window.
- [Book Tuning]: Opens the book tuning window.
- [Download TWIC]: Downloads the latest This Week In Chess games.
- [Connect Hardware]: Hardware connection submenu.

- [Configure]: Configures hardware connections.
- [Input Engine Connect]: Connects/disconnects input engine.
- [Novag Citrine Connect]: Connects/disconnects Novag Citrine board.

- [Player Information]: Displays player information for the White or Black player of the current game.
- [Player Report]: Opens the player report dialog.
- [Rating Graph]: Displays the rating graph.

### Options

- [Language]: Submenu to select the interface language.
- [Theme]: Submenu to select the GUI theme.
- [Configure Scid]: Opens the preferences dialog.
- [Resources]: Opens the resources configuration dialog.
- [Export]: Export format settings submenu.

- [PGN file text]: Sets PGN export text options.
- [HTML file text]: Sets HTML export text options.

- [Full Screen]: Toggles full screen mode.
- [Dock Windows]: Toggles window docking.
- [Save Layout]: Saves the current window layout.
- [Restore Layout]: Restores a saved window layout.
- [Save Options]: Saves the current options to the file "~/.scid/scidrc" (or scid.opt in the directory of the scidCommunity executable programs for Windows users); this file is loaded each time you start up scidCommunity.
- [Auto Save]: Toggles automatic saving of options on exit.

### Help

- [Contents]: Opens the help contents page.
- [Index]: Opens the help index.
- [Quick Guide]: Opens the quick start guide.
- [Hints]: Opens the hints page.
- [Contact]: Opens the contact information page.
- [Tip of the Day]: Shows the tip of the day window.
- [About]: Shows information about scidCommunity.

(Updated: scidCommunity, February 2026)