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Rosicler Kleckner
I played a very interesting game today, and I entered it in ChessBase reader, along with some comments. I would love to save this game in a database (.cbh) or as a .pgn, but I don't know how. Can you please help me?
It is not possible to do this in chessbase reader. You can use Arena Chess (free) to do this then transfer this .pgn into Chessbase Reader. Reader allows me to use Chessbase products for training but to evaluate my own games I use Arena.
I would recommend ChessDB which claims to be the best free chess database program out there, although that was in 2007 ;-). It is quite powerful for a free program with the ability to download from TWIC from within the program. Also import from a player's ICC history. You can hook up to UCI interface games engines.
Of course you can save your games into a database but you cannot import Chessbase format. It has good search capabilities for a free program like player reports and search for games with exact position match.
While you cannot save new games with chessbase reader, you can edit and replace existing ones. So what I do is open a .pgn file (I created one and copy and rename it for each tournament) full of empty games and edit these, i.e. double click an empty game, enter the moves and comments, then right click the game in the list and select replace which lets you edit the metadata and writes the game to the .pgn file. Only the site tag seems to be unavailable, but if you edit it manually, cb reader will display it if the tournament name is short enough.
Take a look at chesstempo. You can use their online database free up to so many moves and then they want you to pay to search deeper. I used to use chesslab.com which was great for searching positions, but it uses a vulnerable version of flash -- if you can deal with that it is a nice resource.chess-db.com claims the biggest database (which is not necessarily good, do you want the kids under 12 tournaments?). The site is fast and has a lot of features.
I wouldn't recommend using the online version though, for a couple of reasons. As you have found, a few features seem to be missing. In addition, having wifi access is required if you want to look someone up (which can be inconvenient if you're at a tournament and need to prepare for an opponent quickly).
The ChessBase program is the way to go. I've been using it for around 10 years now and it's been great. It's straightforward to look any player up in any database. The program also supports the top chess engines (like Komodo, Stockfish), and allows you to save your games in databases.
A really good preparation tool that I use is 365chess. Although it is not better than ChessBase since it offers less features and games, it is online and free, the only requisite to access their big database is to register an account. You can filter games by player, but searching by player and position is a bit awkward, you may need to first go to his games and play out the moves to reach the position you want.
Chessbase by itself however is pretty useless. You need a decent reference database behind it eg; Mega Database 2020x. My Chessbase setup is the Mega Database 2021, Opening Reference Database 2021 and the Correspondance Database 2020 (which I reference the most). I addition to this I have a script to collect games of all titled players on Lichess and Chess.com that are 10 minute or above time controls.This gives me a comprehensive database for reference purposes. Storage is a bit of an issue that being said.
I utilise Chessbase to analyse every game I play, explore new opening ideas and I absolutely love it. That said, its an expensive set up. If you haven't got disposable income it effectively prices you out. I even have my own databases for Opening Repertoires , studies etc
I can't ethically suggest to someone they should invest the $500USD to get chessbase set up properly , but if you take chess seriously want to improve and support the developers of the tool , I would say it a very good tool.
There are free-alternatives (SCID as an example) however you need to build your own databases which can be quite hard. There is a website called which is quite good for this , which if you are patient or a adapt scripter you could collect all their archives and build your own database. Just an idea.
Find all games for a specific player, as either white or black, andfor each position, see which moves they made (and the result of thosegames). Basically, the possibility to filter the "Live Book" window on aspecific player with a specific color.
The Lichess Opening explorer has three tabs "Masters Database", "Lichess Database", and "Player Database". When the "Player Database" tab is active, you can click on the settings icon top right of the opening explorer, and there you can filter by player, color, time control, mode and date:
Chess Assistant = cheaper, more package combinations, superior analysis functions. Chessbase = Easier searches+saving+use+flexible membership, not buggy+superior support, uploads newest games on starter package, on-line latest games on all. As and ex-2100 chess player I find TONS within CA I relish but actually struggle and become frustrated with, whilst wishing for CB to reach those multiple+individual depths, if far more comfortable from a more reliable and quality+workable fact.
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