ChessBase´26 – Ideas for freshmen, Part 19: Discover mannequin video games for coaching

This tutorial provides you a variety of instruments that can assist you prepare sooner and extra successfully. The purpose is so that you can give attention to the content material. A key facet right here can be having the ability to discover helpful coaching materials as rapidly as attainable.

Part 7 lined the best way to manage your individual databases, and Part 13 targeted on utilizing Powerbooks and Powerbases. So by now, it’s best to have the ability to construct your individual databases and make use of the sources supplied by Powerbooks and Powerbases. In this episode, we’ll present you the best way to rapidly discover particular themes in massive databases. Of course, you may then additionally save these search leads to your individual customized database.

CTRL+F – and also you’ll discover every little thing

We already talked about within the introduction that the CTRL+F shortcut performs a key role- now we’ll clarify, utilizing the Mega Database 2025 for example, the place to enter this shortcut to open the search dialog:

When you are on the beginning display of ChessBase´26, click on on “Hard Disk” to get to the display proven beneath. This opens the reference database (you too can do that utilizing the shortcut SHIFT+CTRL+F).

There’s one other technique to open the search extra immediately: merely choose the database you wish to seek for mannequin video games and press CTRL+F. Alternatively, you may right-click on the database and select the “Search…” choice from the menu. This opens the search dialog proven within the subsequent screenshot.

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If you examine the field for “Always use advanced dialog” at this level, you may be taken to the detailed choice choices, which we are going to clarify beneath.

In the highest row of the search masks, you can see the choice menus “Game data,” “Annotations,” “Position,” “Medals” (we are going to clarify this in additional element in a later tutorial), “Material,” “Manoeuvres,” “Strategy,” and “Attacks.” We are at the moment within the “Game Data” choice and have entered “Carlsen, Magnus” there. Further down, you may already see some checkmarks and dots set routinely. The checkmarks beneath the repeated classes are set based mostly on the next explanations, and at last, additionally, you will see a checkmark at “Always advanced dialog” – we defined that above.

We now present just a few extra choice choices from the choice menus, which you’ll customise as wanted in your functions.

In the “Annotations” menu, we enter the phrase “control”; this should then seem within the feedback. We additionally wish to discover Carlsen’s endgame power and seek for “Critical Endgame Position.”

Next, we transfer on to the “Strategy” menu: right here we wish to see how the a number of world champion makes use of “Space Advantage” in “Calm” video games.

Take a have a look at the opposite classes as effectively and check out for your self what could be chosen in every space. You can preset with spectacular precision what ChessBase´26 ought to seek for.

Once you have got preset every little thing as desired, merely click on the “OK” button on the backside left – the search begins, and the next window opens:

 Which, after the search is accomplished efficiently, lastly seems to be like this:

You can see that the search was effectively narrowed down: ChessBase´26 discovered video games, however the listing is brief and manageable. We have already lined the person columns of such lists in earlier components of the tutorial, however the final column is new – it signifies how effectively the sport matches the search standards. In the instance, we see 4 annotated video games, led by a World Championship remaining recreation between Carlsen and Gelfand.

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Pro tip

But preserve the next in thoughts: a sure variety of presets narrows down the search outcomes to a manageable variety of discovered video games. However, should you set too many standards, the search might take too lengthy and discover no video games that meet all of the situations.

Now we want you a lot of enjoyable analyzing your search outcomes.

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ChessBase has developed over a long time to change into what it’s now in its 2026 model. The program has numerous choices, which we are going to current right here in small parts – so you may design your interface for nice every day use and continue learning about new choices and the best way to use them to get probably the most out of ChessBase´26 and save time.

We hope that this tip will assist you to have extra enjoyable and be extra profitable when utilizing ChessBase´26. You can discover extra ideas and hints on our support pages and FAQ pages.

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