Chess Position Trainer 3.2 - Manual by Stefan Renzewitz & Gregory Prentice © 2004-2006 Content CONTENT ...........................................................................................................................................................2 1 WHAT IS CHESS POSITION TRAINER ABOUT? ..........................................................................5 1.1 FEATURES ...............................................................................................................................................5 1.2 DIFFERENCES TO CLASSICAL GAME DATABASES ....................................................................................7 1.3 HISTORY AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION ...........................................................................................8 2 NEW FEATURES OF VERSION 3.2 .................................................................................................10 3 WALKTHROUGH FOR CHESS POSITION TRAINER................................................................11 3.1 THE CONCEPT OF CANDIDATE MOVES ..................................................................................................12 3.2 GET THE EXAMPLE FILES AND START CHESS POSITION TRAINER ...........................................................13 3.3 NAVIGATING THROUGH THE REPERTOIRE AND ENTERING NEW MOVES ..................................................14 3.4 ADD INFORMATION TO POSITIONS .........................................................................................................16 3.5 LET ’S START THE FUN : TRAIN YOUR REPERTOIRE!.................................................................................18 3.6 LEARN FROM YOUR GAMES ...................................................................................................................22 3.7 CREATE A REPERTOIRE WITH SUB -REPERTOIRES ...................................................................................24 3.8 CREATE MIDDLE - AND ENDGAME POSITIONS.........................................................................................26 4 MENU ITEMS DESCRIPTION ..........................................................................................................27 4.1 REPERTOIRE .........................................................................................................................................27 4.1.1 New..........................................................................................................................................27 4.1.2 Load.........................................................................................................................................27 4.1.3 Close........................................................................................................................................27 4.1.4 Delete.......................................................................................................................................27 4.1.5 ZIP Repertoire.........................................................................................................................28 4.1.6 Exit...........................................................................................................................................28 4.2 SUB -REPERTOIRES ................................................................................................................................28 4.2.1 Save..........................................................................................................................................30 4.2.2 Add...........................................................................................................................................30 4.2.3 Separate...................................................................................................................................30 4.2.4 Delete.......................................................................................................................................31 Chess Position Trainer – © Stefan Renzewitz 2004 – 2006 - all rights reserved 3 4.2.5 Close........................................................................................................................................31 4.2.6 Properties ................................................................................................................................31 4.2.7 Refresh.....................................................................................................................................31 4.2.8 Restart......................................................................................................................................32 4.2.9 Copy from here on...................................................................................................................32 4.2.10 Split into two (from here on) ...................................................................................................32 4.2.11 Merge with… ...........................................................................................................................33 4.2.12 Import PGN-file into................................................................................................................33 4.2.13 Export PGN .............................................................................................................................34 4.2.14 Import EPD .............................................................................................................................35 4.2.15 Export EPD .............................................................................................................................35 4.2.16 Remove Marks for....................................................................................................................36 4.2.17 Reset all Training Scores.........................................................................................................36 4.2.18 Backsolving / Min-Max-Calculation ......................................................................................36 4.3 POSITION ..............................................................................................................................................37 4.3.1 Edit Position............................................................................................................................37 4.3.2 Delete.......................................................................................................................................38 4.3.3 Previous Branch ......................................................................................................................39 4.3.4 Next Branch.............................................................................................................................39 4.3.5 Goto Previous / Next Position .................................................................................................40 4.3.6 Copy to Clipboard...................................................................................................................41 4.3.7 Paste from Clipboard ..............................................................................................................41 4.3.8 Reset Training Score ...............................................................................................................41 4.3.9 Switch Side...............................................................................................................................41 4.3.10 Take a Snapshot.......................................................................................................................41 4.4 MOVE ...................................................................................................................................................42 4.4.1 Backward.................................................................................................................................42 4.4.2 Forward...................................................................................................................................42 4.4.3 Up ............................................................................................................................................42 4.4.4 Down........................................................................................................................................42 4.4.5 Delete.......................................................................................................................................42 4.4.6 Copy Moves to Clipboard........................................................................................................43 4.5 TRAINING -CENTER ...............................................................................................................................43 Chess Position Trainer – © Stefan Renzewitz 2004 – 2006 - all rights reserved 4 4.5.1 The idea of using the flash-card concept for a chess program ...............................................44 4.5.2 Training Wizard.......................................................................................................................45 4.5.3 Main Window...........................................................................................................................46 4.5.4 Little walkthrough ...................................................................................................................47 4.5.5 Close Training.........................................................................................................................49