Manual de Chess Position Trainer 4 2012 | Page 73

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Select Restart After Wrong Move and the program will repeat the same line if you made any mistake along the
whole line.
Always Demo Line First will let the program demo each line first by playing both sides before you are asked to
take over your side while the program will play only the opposite color.
Then you can choose to Start with New Position always which is an extremely handy option to learn a new
opening in a structured way, but without repeating the same positions over and over.

5.4.4 Blindfold
This option is only available if you have selected the Photo Reading (p. 70) mode.
The blindfold option opens a totally new dimension for training. It let you train your visualize skills not just by
some rather abstract training units, but by playing your own, personal repertoire!
You can select which pieces you want to hide by the option Hide Pieces. Only hide all pawns or queens? No
problem. Just for black or white? This is also possible.
Next select Restrict to for further adjustments. This let you in combination with the previous option hide for
example pawns just in the centre.
Finally you can Hide Dragging. In this case the mouse cursor won’t indicate which piece (or none) you are
dragging.
Overall with these three options you have a powerful set of options to improve your visual skills which will
have a positive impact on your chess.

5.4.5 Photo Reading Mode
You have three sliders to change how long it takes before a position is shown (till then the board will be hidden), how long it takes after the position was shown till the correct move is displayed and finally the time till
the chessboard fades out.

5.4.6 Hint
You can use move or position comments as additional hints when you failed to find the correct candidate move.
This can help not only to find the correct candidate move, but also to learn the idea behind the move if you cre-