Chessmaster 9000 Manual

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.4.Select the classic game you want to open, and then click OK.5.CHESSMASTER opens the selected game on the chessboard.6.Use the VCR buttons to scroll through each move of the game in the GameStatus window.7.You can then read the comments on each game in the Annotation window.8.The Mentor Lines and Coach windows are available in this room to assist youin your Classic Game study.9.Don t forget that you may also copy the classic game to the Game Room withthe Copy Game From drop-down menu command.You can then add yourown comments, or have CHESSMASTER analyze the game.Chess_PC_Manual.qxd 7/22/02 1:16 PM Page 404140The Library The LibraryStudying Chess Openings tree, and you can use - to collapse the tree.An Opening Book is a repertoire of opening moves and countermoves.Opening 10.The boxes above the Opening Moves window update dynamically as youBook theory has been improved upon by great chess masters for hundreds of select different moves in the Opening Moves tree:years, and these files are available for you to study in CHESSMASTER 9000 fora.Opening gives the general name for that line of opening moves.your own chess development.b.Moves displays the opening move and countermoves, up to and includingCHESSMASTER has compiled a single-master Opening Book Re f e rence, whichthe selected move.you can think of as an encyclopedia of known opening moves.To get the mostc.Variation displays the variation name of the selected opening move orout of the Opening Book Re f e rence, you should use it in conjunction with thecountermove.Game Statusw i n d ow and Annotation w i n d ow.The Game Status w i n d ow letsd.ECO displays the opening code of the selected move.The ECO code is ayou scroll through the moves in the Master Opening Re f e rence using the VCRchess convention that CHESSMASTER 9000 supports.It appears forbuttons.The Annotation w i n d ow lets you re v i ew and listen to annotations oninformational purposes only.each individual move.e.Weight displays one of four values (0, 25, 50, or 100) which indicate howTo use the Opening Book Reference:often the selected move is used.For example, suppose the current opening1.From the Opening Book menu, choosebook contains three opening moves e2-e4, b2-b4, and d2-d3 and theyCHESSMASTER Book Reference.each have corresponding Weight values of 25, 50, and 100, respectively.Inother words, the weight of e2-e4 is 25, b2-b4 is 50, and d2-d3 is 100.If a2.CHESSMASTER displays a loading messagegiven move has a Weight of 0, then the probability of that move being usedand then opens the Opening Bookis zero.Reference with Mentor.obk, the MasterOpening Book.11.The Mentor Lines and Coach windows are available in this room to assist youin your study of Chess Openings.3.Use the Opening Moves window at thebottom to review the possible opening movesCreate Your Own Opening Bookand counter moves.The chess board updatesas you select different moves in the tree.To create a new Opening B ook from scratch:4.When you re done using the Opening Book1.From the Opening Book menu, chooseReference, click the Close icon (X) in theeither New Opening Book to start fromupper-right corner.scratch, or Edit CHESSMASTER Book toedit one of the opening books that came with5.When you view an Opening Book, you see five boxes at the top Opening,CHESSMASTER 9000.Moves, Variation, ECO, and Weight as well as an Opening Moves windowat the bottom.2.Using the chessboard, make the first openingmove.The opening move appears in the6.The Opening Moves w i n d ow displays the opening moves of the curre n tOpening Moves window, and also in theOpening Book.Moves box.7.The column titles indicate the move number for each player.For example, 1.represents White s first move, and 1.& represents Black s first counter move.3.If you want, type a name in the Variation box 2. represents White s second move, 2.& represents Black s second counter for the opening move.move, and so on.4.From the Weight drop-down list, choose a8.Click + to display the next column, which lists all the possible countermove s weight value for the opening move.(Forfor the Black playe r.As you continue to click + in each column, the detailed information on weight values, see the previous section.)Opening Moves tree begins to expand to show all the possible move lines for5.Make the first countermove.each opening.6.CHESSMAST ER updates the O pening Move s w i n d ow and the Move s9.Once you ve expanded the Opening Moves tree, you can use either the mouseb ox accord i n g l y.or the arrow keys on your keyboard to select the individual moves within the7.Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the first countermove, which will appear in thesecond column (1.& ) of the Opening Moves window.Chess_PC_Manual.qxd 7/22/02 1:16 PM Page 424342The Library The Kids Room8 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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