ChessDB Tutorial

The ChessDB tutorial is still under construction, although it should be complete (or very nearly so) by the first of January 2007. There are some tutorials for Scid (on which ChessDB is based) in other languages, including German and Swedish.

• 1. Installing ChessDB from ...
  • 1.1: Installation overview
  • 1.2: Microsoft Windows (binary install from setup.exe)
  • 1.3: Mac OS X (from a binary distribution)
  • 1.4: Mac OS X (from the UNIX source code)
  • 1.5: UNIX or Linux (from the UNIX source code)
  • 1.6: UNIX or Linux (from a binary distribution)
  • 1.7: Using CVS
  • 1.8: Creating a setup.exe (hard and unnecessary for most people)
• 2. Introduction to ChessDB
  • 2.1: About this Tutorial
  • 2.2: Getting Started
  • 2.3: Customising ChessDB
  • 2.4: Using Files in ChessDB
• 3. Games
  • 3.1: Viewing games
  • 3.2: Game List Window
  • 3.3: Entering and Saving Games (half-done)
  • 3.4: Variations and Comments (half-done)
  • 3.5: Identify the Opening
• 4. Searches
  • 4.1: Introduction to Searches
  • 4.2: Tree Window
  • 4.3: Board Searches
  • 4.4: Header Searches
  • 4.5: Material/Pattern Searches (needs expanding)
• 5. Tools
  • 5.1: Analysis Engines
  • 5.2: Crosstables (needs expanding)
  • 5.3: Opening Classification
  • 5.4: Player Report
  • 5.5: Opening Report
  • 5.6: Exporting Games
  • 5.7: Bookmarks (half-done)
  • 5.8: Endgame Tablebases
  • 5.9: Rating Graph
  • 5.10: Player Information
• 6. Database maintenance
  • 6.1: Introduction to Maintenance (started)
  • 6.2: Spellchecking Names (mostly done)
  • 6.3: Deleting Games
  • 6.4: Sorting
  • 6.5: User-settable Flags
  • 6.6: Compacting a Database
• 7. Advanced topics
  • 7.1: Opening Repertoires
  • 7.2: Piece Tracker
  • 7.3: Training (tutorial needs expanding here)
  • 7.4: Advanced Searches (not started)
  • 7.5: Player Finder
  • 7.6: Tournament Finder
  • 7.7: EPD Files
  • 7.8: Chess Engine vs Chess Engine
• 8. Programmers/Developers documentation
  • 8.1: Programmers Reference

Alphabetical Index of the tutorial

• About this Tutorial
• Advanced Searches (not started)
• Analysis Engines
• Board Searches
• Bookmarks (half-done)
• Chess Engine vs Chess Engine
• Compacting a Database
• Creating a setup.exe (hard and unnecessary for most people)
• Crosstables (needs expanding)
• Customising ChessDB
• Deleting Games
• EPD Files
• Endgame Tablebases
• Entering and Saving Games (half-done)
• Exporting Games
• Game List Window
• Getting Started
• Header Searches
• Identify the Opening
• Installation overview
• Introduction to Maintenance (started)
• Introduction to Searches
• Mac OS X (from a binary distribution)
• Mac OS X (from the UNIX source code)
• Material/Pattern Searches (needs expanding)
• Microsoft Windows (binary install from setup.exe)
• Opening Classification
• Opening Repertoires
• Opening Report
• Piece Tracker
• Player Finder
• Player Information
• Player Report
• Programmers Reference
• Rating Graph
• Sorting
• Spellchecking Names (mostly done)
• Tournament Finder
• Training (tutorial needs expanding here)
• Tree Window
• UNIX or Linux (from a binary distribution)
• UNIX or Linux (from the UNIX source code)
• User-settable Flags
• Using CVS
• Using Files in ChessDB
• Variations and Comments (half-done)
• Viewing games

IMPORTANT

The ChessDB tutorial is distributed with ChessDB, so one can use the tutorial on a computer without internet access. However, the online tutorial at http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ may be more upto date than the local copy stored on your computer. Hence if you have a good internet connection, you may prefer to use the online version, rather than a copy that came with ChessDB and is stored locally on your computer.