SAVING YOUR WORK
After entering commentary, markers, and variations to your game, don't
forget to save your work!
Just click the yellow “Menu” button and click “Save game”. That will save
your work. If you've just entered a game for the first time, it will save it to
the database you selected as your own (back in Chapter 1 under “Create
your own database”). If you've loaded a game from an existing database
(which we'll learn about in the next chapter), it will save the game in its
original database, overwriting the game which is already in the database.
Sometimes you want to save a game without overwriting the original
database game. In this case, you'd click the “Menu” button and select
“Save a copy”. This doesn't overwrite the original game. Be aware,
though, that this will make a second listing for the same game within the
database (while not technically being an exact duplicate).
MAKING MORE ROOM TO WORK
We've seen how you can make the font larger in the Notation panel. To
have even more room to work, you can move the mouse to the border
between the notation and the tree/graph display immediately below it;
when the mouse cursor turns to a two-headed arrow, click and drag the
border downward to make the notation portion of the panel larger. You
can also click the “Hide engine” box near the top of the panel to hide the
engine panel (assuming you're not using Houdini to analyze positions, as
we'll see in a later chapter). This will also hide the player rewards pane
from the lower right corner of the screen. The notation panel will become
longer and narrower.
Sometimes as you step though a game move-by-move, you may wish to
conceal moves which haven't yet been played; perhaps you'd like to text
yourself by trying to guess what was played next. Clicking the “Demo
mode” box near the top of the Notation panel will hide the remaining
moves of the game. This sometimes makes navigating through variations
a little more difficult, but is very helpful when you're looking at a position
from a game and trying to guess what was played next.
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