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With ChessDB can:

Enter games by either
Moving the pieces with a mouse.
Typing in the moves from a keyboard 1.e4 etc.
Read games from a PGN file - the standard used for chess games. (In ChessDB 3.6.13 and later, it is possible to read all the PGN files in one directory, making it quick to import a lot of games.)
Download them directly into ChessDB from The Week in Chess (TWIC).
Import games from the history of anyone on ICC - you can rapidly download the recent games played by people whose games you wish to study. (FICS support will be be introduced by the end of March 2007).
A combination of the above 6.
Annotate the games by adding
Text comments
Add standard symbols such as !! (excellent move), ?? (blunder), =+ (black as a slight advantage) etc.
Add coloured symbols to games, to indicate whatever you want. Lots of different symbols may be used, and lots of different colours
Variations showing different lines which may have been interesting.
Analyse a position with GM strength chess engines such as Crafty and Toga.
Create Tournament Crosstables.
Play against many different chess engines from very weak ones to strong chess engines such as Crafty and Toga II. However, ChessDB's roots in Scid are very much as a database more than a tool to play chess in. So ChessDB lacks some features you would want to play a decent game of chess, such as sensible time controls.
Play two chess engines each other to find the strongest. Again, to be fair, this is not one of the tasks ChessDB was designed for, so if you are organising the next chess computer world championship, we suggest you look for more appropriate software. But for the occasional game, it works okay.
Save games in either
Standard PGN format
HTML (for web pages)
LaTeX (a high quality DTP/typesetting format)
Set the pieces on the chessboard then use the Board Search tool to find games in a database which have either the
Exact position - (all pieces on the same squares)
Pawns - same material, all pawns in the same position.
Same material, all pawns on the same files
Same material and pawns, but they can be anywhere on the board
Generate a rating graph showing the rating vs time of a player. (There can be two players on the same graph)
Generate a player report, showing statistics of a single player with either the Black or White pieces.
Classify games according to self defined criteria. (For example, rook endings, games with blunder, games with isolated queens pawn etc etc)
Email games for correspondance chess, using the built in email client.
Use the Header Search tool to find games with specific data in the header, such as:
Player names
Player titles - GM, IM, FW, WGM, WFM, W
Event
Site
Round
Result
Date or range of dates.
ECO code
and many other search criteria
Answer questions like: Is it worth spending much time to study the move 4.Bd2 in the Nimzo Indian defence? The answer is it depends since GMs play 4.Bd2 in less than 0.5% of games with the Nimzo Indian, but players on ICC of about 1400 play it 40% of the time. Such data is useful.
Verify the version in use is the current one or if it old

What ChessDB can not do (as of 2007-02-26)
There are things that ChessDB can not do, which other software can do.

You can not easily use ChessDB to connect to chess servers such as the Internet Chess Club (ICC) or the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) to play games. ChessDB can connect to both ICC and FICS - once connected you can download games played in the past, but unless you are willing to type in the commands to move, you can't use ChessDB to play games. Support for this might be added, as it will not be that hard to do, but does rather get away from the concept of Scid, which was a chess database.
ChessDB does not allow you to embed photographs or video clips into games, although ChessDB does allow you to add player photographs, which will be displayed when one of that players game is being viewed.
ChessDB can not read proprietary file formats such as those used by ChessBase, ChessAssistant and Bookup. However, all these chess databases can save games to PGN format, which ChessDB can read.

http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/downloads/

for more datails and improvemets,and how to download the games on line with ChessDB look here
http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/Scid/