User Interface
The following sections explain the HIARCS Chess Explorer User Interface, its Main window, display panes,
menus, icons and dialogs. They form the basis of the context sensitive help.
Main Window
The main windows of HIARCS Chess Explorer is split into the following parts:
· Title of window: Current database name - HIARCS Chess Explorer
· Menus at the top of the window
· Shortcut icons for accessing common functions
· tabs one per database, here we have only one database open called AnnotatedGames.
· Game Board which shows the current position of the game being examined.
· Game Notation shows the current loaded game including comments, variations and symbols etc.
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Game Explorer shows the list of games in the database and provides functions to explore the
database for games. The Game Explorer pane is optional and its presence is toggled using the
Database Info icon.
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Opening Explorer provides multi-source real-time access to opening moves and statistics.The
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