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1 Chess Position Trainer 4

1.1 Installing the Program
Chess Position Trainer runs under Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows (32bit and 64bit) and needs the
Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed (which should be already installed on your system if you apply Windows updates regularly). If you download the program from www.chesspositiontrainer.com the installer will
check if your system meets the requirements.
The program creates a folder under “My Documents” which is called “Chess Position Trainer 4”. In this folder
the program copies an example database (ExampleDatabase.cpt) and an example PGN file (Amarok.pgn). Both
are used for the step-by-step tutorials in the section Common Tasks (p. 22). The example database should be
automatically loaded if you run Chess Position Trainer 4 for the first time. It contains an example opening for
the “Closed Sicilian”, which allows you to get familiar with the program without having to care of creating an
opening first.
Then, under the same folder the program will create backup folders for a daily, weekly and monthly backup, if
activated. When you start the program for the first you will be asked if you want to activate the backup system
(you can change the folder for the backups). It is highly recommended to activate the backup functionality. Although the program has been thoroughly tested as a matter of fact any software has bugs. The risk to get a corrupted database due to external factors has to be taken serious too (e.g. sudden loss of power or a virus). That’s
why any serious database program offers backup-mechanism, so does Chess Position Trainer 4.

1.2 Welcome to Chess Position Trainer 4!
Chess Position Trainer (CPT) is the perfect solution to manage your chess opening repertoire in a more efficient
way than you probably do today. It helped already thousand of chess players around the world to improve their
opening play. This has been achieved by two major, unique approaches.
Natural Representation of your Opening Repertoire
How do you work on your opening repertoire today? Many chess players don’t use specialized chess software to
manage their openings. Instead they use classical game databases. When game databases were original con-