If you have a single game or variation without branching lines in your repertoire database, you can specify the first relevant position by annotating it as Critical opening position: right-click on the move, chose Special annotation – critical opening position. When you manually add a game to your repertoire there are two way of determining from which move on the game represents your repertoire. You can load games from your repertoire database and add analysis or commentary. If no repertoire database exists, ChessBase will automatically create one and add an icon to your database window. It will even suggest a suitable name for it (e.g. If your game contains a completely new line the program will save it as a new game. You can let it do so or overrule it and save the game as a separate entry. If the game is very similar to an existing repertoire game, ChessBase will suggest merging the two games in the repertoire database. There is also the same command in the Tools menu, and you can press Shift-Ctrl-Alt-A.ĬhessBase will save your game with the variations which are already stored in the repertoire database. With a game in the board window right-click the board and select Add to repertoire.
How to add games to the repertoire databaseįirst of all you can save or copy games into your repertoire database, just like any other database.
In the dialog that appears click the “Repertoire database” checkbox.ĬhessBase has a number of functions that will help you look after and even automatically update your repertoire. To make a database your repertoire database right-click the icon in the database window and select Properties.
In it you collect all information on the openings systems you like to play. Other improvements: Access to annotated games in the Live Database*, new game notation with diagrams and coloured highlighting in encapsulated variations, one login for all ChessBase servers (Playchess, ChessBase Cloud, Let’s Check, ChessBase Accounts), saving of the search mask, export of the diagram list as a Word document produces training material in a jiffy, automatic analysis jobs for correspondence games, simplified production of training questions, the search for similar structures now made interactive, replacing games in big databases considerably speeded up, improved search for doubles, easy use of tool to activate Fritz Trainers and Engines, and much more.The repertoire database is a collection of annotated games or variations in which you look after your repertoire. It will also annotate combinations, played in the game or missed, tries, attacks, initiative, and of course the latest in openings theory.
The function “Tactical Analysis” will insert commentary, variations and diagrams, before strong moves or errors, into a game or an entire database.
“Assisted Analysis”: as you enter a game, whenever you click on a piece an evaluation is produced for all its possible target squares, and this is highlighted on the board in colour.
From “A” for analysis to “Z” for zugzwang, in the new ChessBase 14 program there are a whole heap of improvements which make the entry and analysis of games all the more easy, as they do the production of training or practice material.