Finding comparable games

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Our news site regularly brings you tournament reports illustrated by numerous sample games. In the PGN Replayer you can play through these games, annotate and analyse them.

What is particularly useful and instructive when playing through openings is finding appropriate games for the purpose of comparison. This function is frequently offered in our database program ChessBase. You immediately get, e.g., displayed under the tag Reference additional games which have been played with a specific opening variation.

This option is also available in a slimmed-down version to registered users of a ChessBase Account on our website. A click of the mouse enables you to immediately start within the Replayer the Live database with relevant games for comparison.

Let us take a look at the procedure with the help of a practical example.

The screenshot shows the notation of a game from the Women’s World Championship of 2017. The user can now play through the game, annotate it or analyse it with a chess engine. A click in the early stages of the opening now produces the following supplementary information below the notation.

So, a click of the mouse has sent to the live database a request for a search. There are in total 83 637 comparable games with the position we have selected on our board.

A mouse click on the display of the results of the search immediately starts the Live database. Appropriate games are listed which the user can play through and analyse.

Here once more the user has at his or her disposal a plethora of options for acquiring additional information about the opening system.

As well as the possibility of playing through comparable games, we can point to the statistical information drawn from Live Book. The user can see at a glance the most promising variations from  a statistical point of view. The direct access available to Let`s Check shows – if there are any – the stored results of analysis of chess engines relating to the current position on the board.  In addition, as you use it you can mark those moves in the game which are relevant for your own opening repertoire.

This example is a vivid demonstration of the overarching usefulness of the various web apps, which are available to you to use if you simply have a ChessBase Account.

 

 

 

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17.02.2017
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