The Opening Tree mode from our chess bestseller – Chess assistant – is now available online! You can now receive detailed statistics on all opening moves carefully classified and stored in our opening database. From the very first move of a chess game we supply you with as much info as possible:
How to use ChessBase to create opening repertoire?
Open a database, choose a certain amount of games, choose the games you like, click on “selection to book” and voila, you have an opening tree in .ctg format. It’s so easy to browse through the lines and see statistics. You can make various operations on that opening book, like marking moves with “main move” or “don’t play in tournament.”
How to mark a move in Chessbase theory?
Click on the tab ‘Theory’ to load ready opening surveys. Or load your own repertoire. Mark a move to add it to your White or Black repertoire. All marked moves will be colored in the Live Book. Load your White or your Black repertoire as game notation. White and Black are stored separately.
How to handle a big variation tree in chess?
To handle a big variation tree, use the folding buttons. Below the notation, click on the little microscope to zoom in on the current line. Thank you for using the Chess Openings Training. Creating an account is free. The account is valid for all other ChessBase Web Tools and for play.chessbase.com. Loading… Loading… Loading…
How did Chess Informant revolutionize opening theory?
The hugely influential Chess Informant series has revolutionized opening theory. Its great innovation is that it expresses games in languageless figurine algebraic notation and annotated them using no words, but rather seventeen symbols, whose meanings were explained at the beginning of the book in six different languages.
How to create a chess opening tree graph?
If this helps, I’m developing an interactive tree graph with chess traps and openings at Currently, it shows common openings, how often they are used, and their win-loss ratios. You can also search openings and save your custom openings with comments.
Who was the first person to write chess theory?
The earliest printed work on chess theory, whose date can be established with some exactitude, is Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez by the Spaniard Luis Ramirez de Lucena, published c. 1497, which included among other things analysis of eleven chess openings.
