ChessDB Tutorial
The ChessDB tutorial is still under construction, although it is very comprehensive and is generally the best form of documentation for ChessDB. There are some tutorials for Scid (on which ChessDB is based) in other languages, including German and Swedish.
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1. Installing ChessDB from ...
- 1.1: Installation overview
- 1.2: Microsoft Windows (binary install from
setup.exe) - 1.3: Mac OS X (from a binary distribution)
- 1.4: Mac OS X (from the UNIX source code)
- 1.5: UNIX or Linux (from the UNIX source code)
- 1.6: UNIX or Linux (from a binary distribution)
- 1.7: Using CVS
- 1.8: Creating a setup.exe (hard and unnecessary for most people)
- 1.9: Checking the revision of ChessDB
- 2. Introduction to ChessDB
- 2.1: About this Tutorial
- 2.2: Getting Started
- 2.3: Customising ChessDB
- 2.4: Using Files in ChessDB
- 3. Games
- 3.1: Viewing games
- 3.2: Game List Window
- 3.3: Entering and Saving Games (half-done)
- 3.4: Variations and Comments (half-done)
- 3.5: Identify the Opening
- 3.6: Downloading games from the Week In Chess (TWIC)
- 3.7: Downloading games from ICC and FICS
- 4. Searches
- 4.1: Introduction to Searches
- 4.2: Tree Window
- 4.3: Board Searches
- 4.4: Header Searches
- 4.5: Material/Pattern Searches (needs expanding)
- 5. Tools
- 5.1: Analysis Engines
- 5.2: Crosstables (needs expanding)
- 5.3: Opening Classification
- 5.4: Player Report
- 5.5: Opening Report
- 5.6: Exporting Games
- 5.7: Bookmarks (half-done)
- 5.8: Endgame Tablebases
- 5.9: Rating Graph
- 5.10: Player Information
- 6. Database maintenance
- 6.1: Introduction to Maintenance (started)
- 6.2: Spellchecking Names (mostly done)
- 6.3: Deleting Games
- 6.4: Sorting
- 6.5: User-settable Flags
- 6.6: Compacting a Database
- 7. Advanced topics
- 7.1: Opening Repertoires
- 7.2: Piece Tracker
- 7.3: Training (tutorial needs expanding here)
- 7.4: Advanced Searches (not started)
- 7.5: Player Finder
- 7.6: Tournament Finder
- 7.7: EPD Files
- 7.8: Chess Engine vs Chess Engine
- 8. Programmers/Developers documentation
Alphabetical Index of the tutorial
IMPORTANT
The ChessDB tutorial is distributed with ChessDB, so one can use the tutorial on a computer without internet access. However, the online tutorial at http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ may be more upto date than the local copy stored on your computer. Hence if you have a good internet connection, you may prefer to use the online version, rather than a copy that came with ChessDB and is stored locally on your computer.
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This page was last modified: September 16, 2007. 11:41:41 am GMT