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With the arrival of Playchess for Android, ChessBase’s second venture into the wonderful world of mobile software, the question most asked is how this ties in with ChessBase Online, and how to use the two as a cohesive set.
Since ChessBase Online is the ideal tool for looking up theory, and reviewing and annotating one’s own games, it presents itself as the perfect companion to Playchess for Android where one can play online, and follow live broadcasts, while it saves all this automatically.
Here is a step-by-step guide to play (or watch) a game on Playchess, and then open it in ChessBase Online for easy review and annotation.
The first step is obviously to play (or watch) a game
No special steps are necessary, just play a game as you
normally would.
After the game is finished, it will be saved automatically to the
smartphone or tablet.
ChessBase Online and Playchess for Android both save to the Chessbase directory
by default so will automatically choose it first. Click on SD Card to access it.
The games played are saved to 'server.played' while the games watched in the broadcast
area are saved under 'server.watched'.Click on it to choose your game.
A list of games will appear. Choose the one you want to review and click on it.
Once opened, you simply review, analyze, and annotate in
ChessBase Online as you normally would.
