ChessDB menus

File

• [New]: Creates a new empty ChessDB database.
• [Open]: Opens an existing ChessDB database.
• [Close]: Closes the current ChessDB database.
• [Finder]: Opens the File Finder.
• [Bookmarks]: Bookmarks and bookmark functions.
• [Maintenance]: Database maintenance functions.
• [Maintenance window]: Opens/closes the database maintenance window.
• [Delete twin games]: Finds twin games in the database.
• [ECO-Classify games]: Recomputes the ECO code for all games in the database.
• [Name editor]: Replaces all occurrences of a player, event site or round name.
• [Read-Only]: Makes the current database read-only.
• [Base 1/2/3/4/5]: These commands let you switch between the four available database slots and the clipbase database.
• [Exit]: Exits ChessDB.

Edit

• [Add Variation]: Adds a new empty variation for the next move, or for the previous move if there is no next move yet.
• [Delete Variation]: Provides a submenu of variations for the current move, so one can be deleted.
• [Make First Variation]: Promotes a variation to be the first variation of the current move.
• [Promote Variation to Main line]: Promotes a variation to be the main line, swapping it with its parent.
• [Try Variation]: Enters trial mode for testing a temporary variation without altering the current game.
• [Strip]: Strips all comments or variations from the current game.


• [Empty Clipbase]: Empties the clipbase so it contains no games.
• [Copy this game to clipbase]: Copies the current game to the clipbase database.
• [Paste last clipbase game]: Pastes the active game of the clipbase to be the active game of the current database.


• [Setup start board]: Sets the starting position for the current game.
• [Paste start board]: Sets the start board from the current text selection (clipboard).

Game

• [New Game]: Resets the active game to an empty state, discarding any unsaved changes.
• [Load First/Previous/Next/Last Game]: These load the first, previous, next or last game in the filter.
• [Reload this game]: Reloads the current game, discarding any changes made.
• [Load Game Number]: Loads the game given its game number in the current database.


• [Save: Replace game]: Saves the current game, replacing its original version in the database.
• [Save: Add new game]: Saves the current game as a new game, appending to the end of the database.


• [Identify opening]: Finds the deepest position in the current game that is in the ECO file.
• [Goto move number]: Goes to the specified move number in the current game.
• [Find novelty]: Finds the first move of the current game that has not been played before.

Search

• [Reset Filter]: Resets the filter so all games are included.
• [Negate filter]: Inverts the filter to only include games that were excluded.


• [Current board]: Searches for the current board position.
• [Header]: Searches by header information such as player names.
• [Material/Pattern]: Searches by material or chessboard patterns.


• [Using search file]: Searches using settings from a SearchOptions file.

Windows

• [Comment Editor]: Opens/closes the Comment Editor window.
• [Game List window]: Opens/closes the Game List window.
• [PGN window]: Opens/closes the PGN window.
• [Tournament Finder]: Opens/closes the Tournament Finder window.


• [Database switcher]: Opens/closes the Database Switcher window, which lets you switch to another database or copy games between databases easily.
• [Maintenance window]: Opens/closes the database maintenance window.


• [ECO Browser]: Opens/closes the ECO Browser window.
• [Repertoire editor]: Opens/closes the repertoire editor.
• [Statistics window]: Opens/closes the Filter statistics window which gives a win/loss summary of the games in the filter.
• [Tree window]: Opens/closes the tree window.
• [Endgame Tablebase window]: Opens/closes the window that displays tablebase information.

Tools

• [Analysis engine]: Starts/stops the chess analysis engine, displaying the evaluation of the current position in the analysis window.
• [Analysis engine #2]: Starts/stops a second analysis engine.
• [Crosstable]: Constructs a tournament crosstable for the current game.
• [Email manager]: Opens/closes the email manager window, for managing email correspondence games.


• [Opening report]: Generates an opening report for the current position.
• [Piece Tracker]: Opens the piece tracker window.


• [Player information]: Displays player information for one of the two players of the current game.
• [Rating graph]: Displays the rating graph.
• [Score graph]: Displays the score graph.


• [Export current game]: Saves the current game to a text file in PGN, HTML or LaTeX format. See the export help page.
• [Export all filter games]: Saves all games in the search filter to a text file in PGN, HTML or LaTeX format. See the export help page.


• [Import PGN game]: Opens the Import window for entering a game by typing or pasting its text in PGN format.
• [Import file of PGN games]: Imports a whole file containing games in PGN format to the current database.

Options

This menu provides entries for setting most of ChessDB's configurable options. The [Save options] entry saves the current options to the file "~/.chessdb/chessdbrc" (or chessdb.opt in the directory of the ChessDB executable programs for Windows users); this file is loaded each time you start up ChessDB.

Help

This menu contains help functions, and access to the tip of the day window or the startup window which provides information about the files ChessDB loaded when it started.