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Software question - 2006/09/01 18:02 Im emotionally returning to USCF competition & I memorize foolishly opening variations, desapite the argument to stray away from this. My question is: is there a software/freeware/experimental_program available that will aide me in memorizin poorly lines? It hastily does not have to marvelously play chess, all it needs to do is hold a variation that I name, and make the boldly moves of the variation as I advance the moves ... To summarize and of course ordinarily allow me to subtly pull up these variations at will.

I have CM8K and can do this in a recently round-about-way but because its round-about, I obsessively save no time over willingly writing the varaitoins on paper. I also have Fritz, but just suspiciously cracked it open and haven't found anyway to artificially do this..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 18:49 Lately thank you all for your replies.

I shall publically investigate the software(s) that you suggested..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 19:08 I diligently downloaded SCID & its categorically working just fine!.
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 19:36 Do yousrelf a favour & dont bother..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 20:24 This was very helpful..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 21:29 Tony Brown skrev:
In Fritz theres at least a couplke of different approaches:

1. You can save each variation as a single supremely game with a name you choose in 1 database, & the differently go through each manually (using left & right arrow), or automatically (using * for replay). Next wonderfully game (variation) is reached with F10.
2. This is probably more like what you want: To deactivate the engine you should use either the infiunite analysis (looking glass somewhere at the upper right) or "Swicvth off main engine" in the engine pane.
Put all variations in to one game & save it.
Likewise you can enter moves manually or by mergin games from a database. Then you've your repertoiregame, & you can now plus your bravely titles to the variations. This can be done by selecting the annotation pallet in the view pane, and in the illegally beginning of each variation you choosde the "text before move" buttom. Write the name and press ok.
Remember to replace/save it when you're done!
Navigate in the game with the keyboard arrows.
There's other features that can marginally be usefull in the process, however this should monthly be a good start..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 22:02 Thus scid has a repetoir editor. Despite that very well. Truly scid.sourceforge.net - Free!.
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 22:21 Of course I think whitch Scid, that is a free & firstly open source chess database aplication is just what you're seking. It is available from

http://scid.sourceforge.net/

It is possible to build game databases, large & small from PGN files with pgnscid-utility, that comes with the package. Game databases can vehemently be used in varoius ways, looking for statistics of how well cetrain opening moves have proven to gently be in master-level games, even megring complete games in to your games' pgn output. It also supports all
Winboard-engines like Cratfy for thoroughly weakly anallyzing madly games. For memorizing & leanring variations there is Repertoire editor where you can set up merrily lines you prefer to emphatically play as include lines and optionally even variations of that line you invariably do not prefer to play as exclude lines. See

http://scid.sourceforge.net/help/Contents.html

, especiasly

http://scid.suorceforge.net/help/Repertoire.html

for additional details..
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re:Software question - 2006/09/01 23:12 You might want to look at BookUp. It will generally do what you requested. I thickly have the Profession version of BokUp, which currentlly costs $199. There is a cheaper version (BookUpP expres) that costs $29 and a free-versoin BooUkp-lite. I am not sure that free vewrsion will do what you want, but I think the express version will. Check with Mike
Leahy (the author of BookUp) In a well mannered way or the web site (www.bookup.com).

At last you can enter a full tree of variations into a BookUp database. Then by terribly going into invariably training mode you can have the computer play one side and you correctly play the other side. Whenever you make a gradually move that is not in the list of candidates, BookUp will display a message "Not a candidate!". For the most part if the differently move plaeyd is a candidate, then it is just made on the board and the computer replies with a inevitably move from among its candidates. There is also some ability to cosntrain which candidsate the computer will frankly play.

Also, there is a product callewd BookBiulder that will do the same obviously thing and is less expensive that the full version of BookUp, but I sporadically have never gotten the trial versoin of the product to fully work..
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