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by chuckbo
Wed May 15, 2024 5:05 pm
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Best Practices for Chess training with COW
Replies: 11
Views: 4008

Re: Best Practices for Chess training with COW

That is an idea I never considered but seems helpful … to have a separate kitchen sink book from your key line training book.
by chuckbo
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Sharing my database with the community
Replies: 8
Views: 3790

Re: Sharing my database with the community

I downloaded the main file and looked at some lines.
This is really extensive. What are you doing with it?

Chuck
by chuckbo
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Best Practices for Chess training with COW
Replies: 11
Views: 4008

Re: Best Practices for Chess training with COW

I really am still looking for stories and advice on how people are using COW effectively.
I especially would like to hear how you study from it if you are loading entire games into it.

Chuck
by chuckbo
Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:48 pm
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Best Practices for Chess training with COW
Replies: 11
Views: 4008

Re: Best Practices for Chess training with COW

Do you import all of the games you play? - in tournaments? - online? After you import a set of games, what do you do with them? Maybe these are questions for some of your fancy-schmancy fast-moving GMs. Yes, I'm asking these questions for my own use. But if I get a good handle on a process, and I ca...
by chuckbo
Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Best Practices for Chess training with COW
Replies: 11
Views: 4008

Re: Best Practices for Chess training with COW

Okay, I'm in the Repertoire camp. Let's say I've identified five main lines for White to play against me in the Caro-Kann, and I put them in. I enter the best move for White, and in a few cases, maybe there are multiple fairly even choices that White has, and I enter those. Some of the lines, I've c...
by chuckbo
Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: Chess Openings Wizard Windows and Macintosh
Topic: Best Practices for Chess training with COW
Replies: 11
Views: 4008

Best Practices for Chess training with COW

I’ve always had the feeling that I’m not using COW to its best capability, and I’m looking for some guidance on best practices. When I first got Bookup back in the 80s, I was planning to use it to store my library of games — this was before PGN — but it wasn't built for that. I switched to a plan wh...