Creating a New Exercise - czbar/ChessForge GitHub Wiki

You can create Exercise in Chess Forge manually or automatically from a Study or a Game.

Creating Exercise Manually

Select the Exercises tab (green below) and chooseCreate New Exercise from the right-click menu. Alternatively, you can right-click the Exercises heading in the Chapters view and select Create New Exercise from the context menu there (red below):

 

In the Position Setup dialog box:

• Select a piece and drag it to the deisred square (red below)
• Use the checkboxes to specify castling rights (green below)
• Use the drop-down list to select the en passant square (blue below). The system will list all potentially legal en passant squares.
• Use the toggle button to choose which side is to move (purple below)
• When finished, click OK (yellow below).

 

The program performs basic validation and may return an error if the position you trying to setup is illegal, for example if there is no White king or if Black has two kings.

The system open the Exercise Header dialog. Complete the fields as required. See Exercise Header Editor

 

The exercise has been created:

 

See Entering Solution for the Exercise for the next step.

Creating Exercise Automatically

To create an Exercise automatically, navigate to the Study or a Game and locate the move (red below) that leads to the desired position (blue below). Then, use the right-click context menu (red below) and select Create Exercise From Here (green below):

 

The system creates an exercise with the solution (red below) copied from the moves following the selected position in the Study or Game:

 

You can edit the solution if needed, for example to add Quiz Points to specific moves. For more details see Entering Solution for the Exercise.