Manual de Chess Position Trainer 4 2012 | Page 25

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2.2 Add moves to your Repertoire
A repertoire consists of candidate moves and positions. The program stores no concrete games. Instead it stores
for each positions candidate moves which you want to cover by your repertoire (it’s up to you to decide which
ones these are). All candidate moves of a position are shown in the “Candidate Move List” window.
There are two ways to populate your repertoire. You can either import positions and moves from other sources
(e.g. PGN file or old CPT 3.x database) or you manually add
moves.
If the just created opening “Closed Sicilian” is not open
please double-click on it now in the “Opening Repertoire
Explorer”. Then add manually the moves 1. e4 e5, 2. Nc3 by
dragging and dropping the pieces of the chessboard.
The arising position defines the “Closed Sicilian”. Now we
want to cover all potential moves of Black as we can’t force
Black to play our favorite variations. We have to cover all
options and then define our reply (usually just one). In this
case we want to cover Nc6, a6, d6 and e6 as the most likely
replies by black.
Enter Nc6 and then go back to the prev ious position to add the other moves by either using the Back button or
by using the keyboard shortcut left arrow.

The arrows are the most helpful keyboard shortcuts of the program. If you use the left or right arrow you can
quickly navigate through your opening by the currently selected candidate move. The up and down arrows help
you to change the selected candidate move of the “Candidate Move List” window. Finally the shift button helps
you to jump to the next or previous branch (depending on your selection for the position type in the “Navigation” ribbon page). These shortcuts are particular useful if you want to systematically navigate through your
opening.