ChessBase Support

Sharing databases

Answer

In training or in preparing for a tournament it can be helpful to exchange databases and game annotations with a specific user. A trainer can, for example, analyse the games of his students, annotate them and provide specific advice about mistakes. Frequently the relevant databases are sent and received by email, but there is a more elegant and effective way if the user has a ChessBase Account and utilises the options afforded by the Cloud servers. It is namely possible to assign to someone access rights to a database saved in the Cloud, the condition, however, being the possession of our Database program. It is only with ChessBase that access rights can be transferred, it is not possible from the MyGames App!

If you wish to transfer access rights to a database you have stored in the Cloud, you go about it as follows:

Start ChessBase and choose access to the Cloud databases.

With a right click on the database you can now establish access rights via “Database sharing”.

A new window is opened. The first section of the dialog looks for example like this:

The user “Sundiver” is allowed to load and look at the data, but has no right to alter it. The two users “Visakh” and “Pitters” have the right to make changes and directly add comments and analysis. We have for the moment omitted the second part of the dialog box which has to do with the creation of a website in which the games can be played through.

So, how then can one of the recipients have access to the database? Let us put ourselves in the position of the user called Pitters, who now logs in with his ChessBase Account and would like to access the data via MyGames.

Menu Databases – Open database starts the file selection dialog:

In the dialog box Database selection there us the section “Shared with me”.

Here the user can see specifically which databases from which users are shared with him or her. A double click on the desired database starts the games list and the database can now be edited and added. For that purpose the App provides numerous editing functions below the notation window for variations and text.

The following example now shows how the receiver has access to the modified database with ChessBase 14 and how he accesses the textual commentary previously added to the game by the user Pitters.