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- 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.
- 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
This is really extensive. What are you doing with it?
Chuck
- 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
I especially would like to hear how you study from it if you are loading entire games into it.
Chuck
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...