Set up position enabling you to modify the current position and even set up a new one.
Toggle the coach on or off. The coach is on when this icon is highlighted. The coach
provides move advice and warnings when you make mistakes or miss good moves.
Ask the computer for a hint move. This will be graphical demonstrated on the board.
Short cut keystrokes
You can access many common operations using shortcut keystrokes. The keystrokes for common
operations are displayed on each menu. Please see the section on menus to discover the shortcut
keystrokes for different menu options.
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File menu
Edit menu
View menu
Game menu
Play menu
Search menu
Help menu
Menus
HIARCS Chess Explorer uses menus to access much of its functionality. Many of the menus have shortcut
key strokes that can be used to access the function from the keyboard. There are also many shortcut icons
which give quick one click access to commonly used functionality.
In this section we look at the menus available and describe the purpose of each menu item.
File menu
The File menu allows you to manipulate files. Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations
are also defined on the menu, you can use the keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly
from the keyboard. You can also see shortcut icons for some menu items on the menu as a guide that there
is a shortcut toolbar icon for the option.
New...
Create a new PGN database, you will be given a New database dialog to set the new database name. The
new PGN database will then be created and opened in a new tab.
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