ChessBase tips for beginners - Enter and save your games

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12/11/2025 – Anastasia Corotcova explains how ChessBase allows beginners to easily enter, edit, and save chess games, starting from creating a new board to recording moves directly on the screen. She highlights powerful ChessBase features such as assisted analysis, automatic move recognition, colour-coded move quality, and tools for correcting or inserting moves, showing that the software isn’t just for notation but a full analytical environment. In the end, she demonstrates how ChessBase helps players organize their own databases, store complete game information, and build a personal library—capturing the essence of ChessBase as a professional tool for learning, analysing, and managing chess games.
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ChessBase tips for beginners - Enter and save your games

by Anastasia Corotcova

ChessBase tips for beginners introduces a wide range of ChessBase features and demonstrates how to use the program efficiently.

Viewers learn everything from entering their first moves to applying powerful analytical tools that improve understanding.

Anastasia Corotcova guides us through each step, explaining the functions with clarity and practical examples, and shows how to unlock the full potential of ChessBase and build confidence from the very start.

  • 0:00 – Introduction: Entering & saving games in ChessBase
  • 0:08 – Opening a new board (Home tab → Board icon)
  • 0:17 – Basic move entry by dragging pieces
  • 0:36 – Faster move entry by clicking the target square
  • 0:55 – Assisted Analysis: highlighting legal & strong moves
  • 1:12 – Color system explained (good, theoretical & inaccurate moves)
  • 1:26 – Notation window: tracking and navigating moves
  • 1:38 – Jumping to positions via notation
  • 1:49 – Correcting mistakes using Override (Ctrl / Shift shortcut)
  • 2:15 – Inserting moves without deleting the whole game
  • 2:31 – Saving the game to a database
  • 2:47 – Adding full game details (players, event, date, ratings)

Anastasia Corotcova is a chess player from Moldova who actively played and trained until starting university, around which time she also obtained her first FIDE Arbiter licence. Meanwhile, she is an international arbiter.

She has a background in computer science and has been working professionally in IT for the past seven years, which is her main occupation today.

Alongside this, Anastasia contributes educational chess content for ChessBase and previously hosted an educational TV program for children.

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Data, plans, practice – the new Opening Report In ChessBase there are always attempts to show the typical plans of an opening variation. In the age of engines, chess is much more concrete than previously thought. But amateurs in particular love openings with clear plans, see the London System. In ChessBase ’26, three functions deal with the display of plans. The new opening report examines which piece moves or pawn advances are significant for each important variation. In the reference search you can now see on the board where the pieces usually go. If you start the new Monte Carlo analysis, the board also shows the most common figure paths.

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