Information tab view
The Information tab shows detailed information about the selected player, their games, results, performance
and favourite openings. This dialog is a very powerful navigation aid for chess players so we will try to
explain it in detail. If you have a game open in the Game Notation pane with the player you are interested in
you can click the player name to access this Player information directly.
Here we see the details for English GM Michal Adams. It shows the following information in order:
· Players name, in the included databases we use the official FIDE names where available.
· Number of games played by the player in the named database
· The date range when the games were played
· The rating of the player over that period
Now we come to the player statistics. The statistics marked in blue are selectable and clicking them will
automatically populate the Game Explorer game list with the games matching the criteria, for example
clicking on the +155 games in the White: line will show the 155 white wins by Michael Adams in the game
list. This innovative hyper-linked connectivity between Players and Games is a very powerful and convenient
mechanism to rapidly access games.
Let us look the remaining information:
· Total games played split into wins, draws and losses.
· White games and their statistics - these are games played by Michal Adams as White, you will see the
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