User's Manual - czbar/ChessForge GitHub Wiki

Installation

• Download and Installation

Application

• User Interface
• Keyboard Navigation and Shortcuts
• Application Options
• Engine Options
• Connecting Chess Forge to Chess Engine
• Chessboard Colors
• Dark Mode

Workbooks

• Workbook Structure: Chapters with Intro, Study Tree, Model Games, Exercises, Bookmarks
• Workbook Options
• Opening a Workbook
• Online Libraries
• Creating a Private Online Library
• Workbook Backup

Main Views

• Working with Moves and Lines: Adding, Deleting, Duplicating Moves; Inserting Null Moves; Promoting, Reordering and Moving Lines
• Drawing arrows and circles on the chessboard
• Annotation Editor: Comments, NAGs, References and Quiz Points
• Scoresheet
• Explorer and Tablebase
• Engine and Evaluation: Pasting Engine Lines, Bad Move Detection, Do Not Update Position Evaluation, Deleting Evaluation
• Finding Positions
• Replaying Line
• FEN
• Diagrams
• Thumbnails
• Importing Data into Chess Forge
• Exporting Data from Chess Forge

Chapter

• Creating Chapter
• Merging Chapters
• Splitting Chapter
• Matching Games to Chapters by ECO
• Copying Games and Exercises between Chapters
• Moving Games and Exercises between Chapters
• Assigning ECOs to Chapter Items
• Sorting Games across Chapters
• Regenerating Chapter Study from Games
• Chapter and Workbook Statistics

Intro

• Creating Chapter Intro
• Intro Editor

Study Tree

• Creating Study Tree
• Importing Study Tree
• Self Indexing View

Games

• Games View
• Creating a New Game
• Game Header Editor
• Navigating Games
• Finding Games
• Deleting Games

Exercises

• Exercises View
• Creating a New Exercise
• Exercise Header Editor
• Navigating Exercises
• Entering Solution for the Exercise
• Showing Exercise Solutions
• Solving an Exercise
• Deleting Exercises

Bookmarks

• Creating Bookmarks
• Deleting Bookmarks
• Filtering Bookmarks
• Working with Bookmarks

Training

• Starting Training
• Playing in Training Mode
• Saving Training
• Playing Against Engine