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Reference Window
Every time the position on the board changes the program collects the moves and the games and displays them in the Reference Window. The program uses the reference database for the search. This database is usually your biggest database with the best annotations (e.g. Mega Database).
Mega Database
Mega Database contains 720,000 games. The List Window displays the contents of the database. You can choose which columns you want to display and their order. Click a column to sort the list. The List Window has tabs at the top for games, players, tournaments, annotators, sources, teams and game titles.
Multiple Engines
Turbo Dambase supports the Hub protocol, written by Fabien Letouzey. The program is shipped with the Hub engines Flits (Adri Vermeulen), Kingsrow (Ed Gilbert) and Scan (Fabien Letouzey). You can run multiple engines at the same time. When you play against engine you can ask for a hint.
Instant Analysis
The engine instantly analyzes all moves and shows the scores in a bar chart.
Endgame Result
The Kingsrow WLD endgame databases show the result of endgames up to 8 pieces.1
Endgame Depth
The Kingsrow DTW endgame databases show the depth of endgames up to 7 pieces.2
Endgame Arrows
If the position is won, the winning moves have a green arrow. If the position is a draw, the moves that are good for a draw have a yellow arrow. If the position is lost, all moves have a red arrow.
Notation
Enter variations, text and symbols. Colored arrows and squares. Insert diagrams everywhere. Reward strong moves with a medal. Assign color to important moves. Show the journey the piece has travelled from the beginning of the game. When editing a game you can undo changes and redo. Full support of utf8, you can mix all written languages, like Latin, Chinese, Cyrillic.
End of Game
Use End of Game to indicate that this is the last move played in the game. The subsequent moves are part of the analysis of the final position. The moves played in the game are bold, the moves after the End of Game are not bold.
Game Link
You can include links to other games in the text. If you double-click on the game link in the Notation Window the game will be searched. The program first searches the game in the opened database. If it cannot find the game it searches the reference database. If it finds the game it is displayed. At the bottom of the Notation Window a Back button appears with which you can return to the game with the game link.
Search
Search on players, tournament, year, result, number of moves. Games in which a particular position occurs. Positions that meet a pattern. Positions with a certain material distribution. Games having certain annotations, like text commentary, symbols, colored squares and arrows, piece path, diagrams, variations, critical position, medals. Search a series of consecutive moves, where each move must meet certain criteria, like begin square and end square. Search all variations, or the main line only. Retrieve games not fulfilling the criteria.
Highlight Known Positions
Find all positions of the game in the reference database. In the Notation Window the positions found are highlighted. All the positions which also occur in other games have a red color.
Highlight Novelty
Find the first position of the game that never occurred before the date of the game in question according to the games of the reference database. In the Notation Window the novelty has a special color.
Highlight Novelties
Find all positions of the game that never occurred before the date of the game in question according to the games of the reference database. In the Notation Window the novelties have a special color.
Player Encyclopedia
The Player Encyclopedia is used in de Player List to show extra data such as the country and the title. The Player Encyclopedia is also used when entering the names of players with saving and searching. A new version of the Player Encyclopedia will be released regularly and can be updated from within the program.
Layouts
You can create different layouts and easily switch between them. You can choose a favorite layout to display when the program is started.
When printing games you can set many options like columns, page numbers, header and footer, size of diagrams and font. Printing diagram sheets is also possible.
Export
Create a file suitable for word processors, internet, and other draughts programs.