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Openings book
Board window: Notation – Book tab produces the book
window.
The openings book contains positions and full information on all the moves played in
them. ChessBase has fast access to this information.
There are two types of trees:
B o o k da ta ba s e s : Here you collect games in a database which is stored
permanently on your hard disk.
O n- the - fly tre e s : It is possible to generate a tree very quickly from any
selection of games, e.g. all the white games of a particular player. Right-click the
games and select Game to Book (or press Shift-Enter).
How to create a new openings book
Database window: M e nu F ile Ne w
Da t a ba se . In the file selector select Books (*.
CTG) in the field "Files of type:"
How to copy games into an openings book
Select games, press Ctrl-C to copy, click the database symbol of the tree and press
Ctrl-V to paste.
You can also Drag & Drop games or an entire database into the tree.
The ChessBase openings book recognizes all transpositions, even those that were not
played in the games from which the book was compiled. Positions with reversed
colours are also not differentiated – everything is considered from the point of view of
White. After the moves 1.d3 d5 2.d4, for instance, the 2...c5! is given and you get a
perfect Queen's Gambit with reversed colours.
The ChessBase openings books (with the CTG extension) can be directly read by the
chess programs Fritz, Shredder,etc. as well as a number of other chess engines. With
an openings book they can play the moves in the initial stages of the game instantly,
without calculating anything themselves. So it is very easy to use ChessBase to
create, edit or extend an openings book for Fritz and friends.
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