PART 2 • The chess tree
You can create a new tree based on the GigaKing games of
a particular player. After loading one of that player's games
in which the player has the color pieces for which you want
to create a tree (by double-clicking on it from a database
game list, as we discussed in Chapter 13), click “Prepare
for opponent” from the left-hand panel. You'll see a dialogue
similar to the one pictured below:
• The game I selected had J.R. Capablanca playing the White pieces
and Frank Marshall playing Black. I'm provided with a choice of trees:
Capablanca as White, Marshall as Black, and combined White and
Black games for either player. There's little reason to ever create a tree
based on all of a player's games (as opposed to creating a tree by
what color pieces he or she played) for the very practical reason that
you'd have no way to know whether a move in the tree was played by
the player in question or one of his or her opponents. It's for that reason
that we recommend that you create trees based on either the White or
Black games of the player, so that you'll always know whether a move
in the tree was played by the player or an opponent.
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