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Database basics - part 8

10/13/2004 – In the final installment of "Database Basics", columnist Steve Lopez discusses the finer points of speeding up your database searches and offers some closing thoughts on why using a database is important for your chess development. Read about it in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

Database basics - part 7

10/8/2004 – Our ongoing ChessBase Workshop series on database searches continues this week with an examination of some common mistakes that might prevent you from gathering the information you require. Learn how to avoid these missteps by reading Steve Lopez's latest article.

Database basics - part 6

10/1/2004 – In the latest ChessBase Workshop, we explain the purpose of "medals" used to mark games of special interest and show how to search for them using Fritz8. Read all about it here. Workshop...

Database basics - part 5

9/25/2004 – In the previous installment of ChessBase Workshop we began an examination of the "Position" dialogue in Fritz8's search mask. Today we finish with the remainder of the dialogue and look at some interesting shortcuts.

Database basics - part 4

9/20/2004 – The latest installment of "Database Basics" examines position searches. You'll learn how the "board" radio buttons and the use of piece "wildcards" can help you refine your position searches in this week's ChessBase Workshop.

Database Basics

9/15/2004 – Our series of articles on "Database Basics" is intended to show new users how to utilize the search features of chess databases. Part Three describes how to search for the various annotation forms that are used in ChessBase format games. Read all about it in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

Database searches

8/30/2004 – This week's ChessBase Workshop continues our series on database searches. The most common type of search involves the game header information. We explore the "Game data" tab of the search mask here.

Database basics - part 1

8/24/2004 – In the new ChessBase Workshop, columnist Steve Lopez gets back to basics with the first entry in a new series on how to use chess databases to improve your own chess skills. In our first installment, we examine what a database is and why using one as part of your chess study is important. More...

Database window

8/20/2004 – The Database window of ChessBase 8 is your "desktop view" of your available databases. Find out how to customize this work area (including a few "hidden" tweaks) in this installment of ChessBase Workshop.

Bookmark a game in ChessBase 8

7/5/2004 – Many ChessBase users run into situations where they want to "bookmark" a game for later retrieval. The usual solution is to use medals to mark games in the list. But there's another method: creating user keys and manually assigning games to them. We show you how in the latest ChessBase Workshop.

ChessBase 8 printout

6/18/2004 – If you've ever fired up ChessBase 8 and loaded a game which has a ton of opening variations, you'll know that the regular notation display can sometimes be a little tough to read and navigate. In this week's ChessBase Workshop, Steve Lopez shows you how to clean up that display and make a nice professional-looking paper printout of the result. Workshop...

Position setup

4/22/2004 – "Position setup" has been a basic standard feature of ChessBase/Fritz software for many years. In this week's ChessBase Workshop we examine the bare-bones basics of how to setup and save a chess position for new users and provide a few tips that even the "old hands" might not know. Workshop...

Creating user keys in ChessBase 8 - part 2

4/13/2004 – In part two of our series on creating user keys in ChessBase 8, we provide tips on how to structure your key list with two different methods for displaying your user-created keys. It's all in this week's ChessBase Workshop.

Creating user Keyes in ChessBase 8.0

4/1/2004 – Do you do a lot of the same searches repeatedly on the same database and wish you didn't have to manually enter the same search criteria over and over? If so, there's an easy way to save yourself a lot of work: create your own user keys to index your database. We show you how to do it in this week's ChessBase Workshop.

Searching for tactics

3/29/2004 – While comprehensive "fuzzy" database searches for tactics are outside the capabilities of digital computers, you certainly can use ChessBase 8 to find plenty of tactical positions -- all you need are a little imagination and some know-how. You'll find some ideas and examples in this week's installment of ChessBase Workshop.

Annotation and language tabs

2/12/2004 – In this week's ChessBase Workshop, we show how to add color to the annotations in your Notation pane and offer an important tip to annotators who are writing for worldwide electronic distribution. You will find it all explained in plain English in Steve Lopez's weekly ChessBase Workshop...

ChessBase Workshop Q & A

1/20/2004 – Even the most expert user cannot discover all the hundreds of features that are built into our program. And beginners usually have a lot of simple things to learn. In this week's ChessBase Workshop, Steve Lopez fields a variety of questions regarding ChessBase 8 and the Fritz family of playing programs. Questions and answers...

Printing games and diagrams with ChessBase 8

1/6/2004 – In this week's ChessBase Workshop, we look as some questions and answers specifically relating to print publication of chess games and diagrams. If you're planning on writing the "chess book of your dreams", be sure to take a look here before you begin! It is all to be found in the latest installment of Steve Lopez's ChessBase Workshop...

Law of diminishing returns

11/27/2003 – Cramming the ChessBase search mask full of search criteria should result in plenty of "hits", right? Not exactly – the more you put in, the less you get out. In this week's ChessBase Workshop, database expert Steve Lopez explains the "law of diminishing returns".

Book properties in ChessBase 8

10/6/2003 – ChessBase Workshop columnist Steve "Mathematically Challenged" Lopez risks his sanity and reputation by again tackling a statistical function in ChessBase 8: the "statistics" display in the Book pane, while also explaining the additional display options available in the Book pane. Workshop...

Notation options in ChessBase 8

9/18/2003 – ChessBase 8 allows the user to configure the Notation display in myriad ways. This week's ChessBase Workshop explains the various options for the Notation display. More...

Postion search shortcuts in ChessBase 8

9/2/2003 – Have you ever been playing through a game in ChessBase 8, seen an interesting position, and wondered whether or not it appears in any other games in your database? That information is just a right- click away -- we'll show you how to do it in this week's ChessBase Workshop.

CORRECTIONS!

8/26/2003 – In this week's ChessBase Workshop, Steve Lopez eats a very large and bony crow, correcting the unfortunate mathematical errors he made in last week's column with the kind help of some of our readers. Let's not waste any more time and we'll get right to the public humiliation portion of our programme! Pass the ketchup?

ChessBase statistics -- part three

8/13/2003 – A few decades ago a mathematician named Arpad Elo devised a pretty slick ranking system based on statistical probability. FIDE (the World Chess Federation) adopted it as an official standard in 1971 and chessplayers the world over have greeted each other with "What's your rating?" ever since. More in this week's ChessBase Workshop
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