Manual de Chess Position Trainer 4 2012 | Page 63

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If you click on any game in the game list the program will show you immediately the novelty played in that
game. At the same time it will show the last position of your best matching opening before the novelty is played
in the main window.
The magic happens in the background. CPT checks all openings and finds the one which covers the game the
best automatically. While it is checking the game it saves the information where you or your opponent didn’t
play a candidate move for any position. In the case of your opponent he has only to play any candidate move for
a specific position, but in your case you always have to play the first ranked one. The first deviation will be
shown.
So the meaning of a novelty is different depending on who deviated first. If your opponent deviated first it simple means that you didn’t consider this move yet. Maybe, because it’s obviously a bad one or you really didn’t
expect it. On the other hand, if you didn’t play a candidate move you made a mistake, according to the candidate move concept and the repertoire which you entered. There is one exception: there is no candidate move at
all for example because it’s move number 20 or so and you are not interested in covering the variation any
longer.