Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts are case sensitive, and can be overided by altering standardShortcuts() in Scid.gui (end.tcl).
The window manager may interfere with some shortcuts.

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General

• Use standard notation to input moves with the keyboard (eg e4)
• left - Back one move
• right - Forward one move
• up - Back five moves/exit variation
• down - Forward five moves
• home - Goto start/variation start
• end - Goto end/variation end
• control-g - Goto move number
• control-f - Flip Board
• escape - Clear move entry
• enter - Add move from chess engine
• space - Start/stop chess engine
• delete - Delete trailing moves from game or variation
• control-enter - Add line from chess engine
• control-delete - Delete current game
• F1 - Help
• control-shift-F7 - Dump all Images as base64 (developer only)
• control-shift-F8 - Dump all Images as jpegs (developer only)
• control-shift-F12 - Screenshot
• alt-KEY - Menu shortcut (*nix only)

Scid Windows

• control-p - PGN window
• control-l - Gamelist window
• control-e - Comment editor
• control-m - Maintenance window
• control-i - Gameinfo window
• control-t - Tree window
• control-X - Crosstable
• control-b - Book window
• control-B - Setup board
• control-S - Score Bar
• control-Z - Score graph
• escape - Close window

Engines

• control-A - Configure analysis engines
• F2 - Toggle engine 1
• F3 - Toggle engine 2
• F4 - Toggle engine 3
• enter - Add move from chess engine
• space - Start/stop chess engine
• control-enter - Add line from chess engine
• control-space - Toggle trial mode

Copy / Paste

• control-c - Copy game to Clipbase
• control-v - Paste game from Clipbase
• control-C - Copy FEN
• control-V - Paste FEN
• control-I - Import PGN

Games and Databases

• control-s - Save game
• control-up - Previous game
• control-down - Next game
• control-home - First game
• control-end - Last game
• control-N - New game
• control-u - Load game number
• control-? - Load random game
• control-o - Open database
• control-w - Close database
• control-/ - Finder
• control-1 - Switch to first open base
• control-2 - Switch to second open base
• ....
• control-9 - Switch to Clipbase

Search / Filter

• control-G - General (header) search
• control-M - Material search
• control-r - Reset filter
• control-n - Negate Filter
• control-P - Player finder
• control-T - Tournament finder
• control-Z - Score graph

Variations

• control-a - Add variation
• v - Enter variation
• z - Exit variation

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