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Now drag&drop it inside your new database (here 2: Kasparov) and you're done! You have a filtered kasparov database. Press "Search" and then "Close" this search window and you have a clipbase database filtered like you want.

Open the menu Search->Header (Ctrl+Shift+H) and enter the needed values: Let's say we want Kasparov playing as white between January 1999 and December 2005. We want now to filter this games by player, color and date and put them in our fresh database. (you can now close that PGN with a right click->close) The games present in the PGN are now copied temporarily to clipbase. Select this PGN game/database and drag&drop it inside the clipbase database. This new window helps you organize simply your opened databases as shown below.Ĭlipbase is a temporary database always present in SCID where you can put any temporary games or move from one place to another and filter them.Ģ: Kasparov_ is your new database (should contain 0 games for the moment)ġ: Kasparov.pgn is the PGN you've just opened. First choose menu File->Open and select one the PGN's you've downloaded and go to menu Windows->Database Switcher (Ctrl+D). Open SCID and create a new database (file with extension. Now that you have a lot of games featuring your idol, you need to organize them in a database. If you don't have a premium account there though, you cannot download PGN's but at least you can find the latest events where your GM played and find these events on google (most of them have an official site) and download the PGN's for free. It will have all the up-to-date games of your favorite GM. Now you need to ask yourself "after the 2 or 3 first obvious moves, what next move should I use?" There is no perfect answer, but one that worked for me is to search for a GM that uses the same opening as you.

I assume you already have at least 1 pet opening for white and and a response as black against at least 1.e4 and 1.d4.

SCID (alternative is ChessDB, but scid is preferred and used here) You will absolutely need the following tools: I'd like to share a few tips I gathered in my quest for learning openings.Īt first, when trying to learn a new opening, people tend to put as many variations as possible in their software/database without any real work behind it. Here I'll show you how to store your pet opening moves and practice them.