Videos

Basic Videos

 How to start
your opening repertoire
How to create a new ebook and start an opening repertoire.
This is the place to start if you are new to Chess Openings Wizard.
2021
 
New functions in Express build 162Using the new diagram marking functions and multimedia playback. Stockfish 14.1 with arrow hints.
 How to handle
moves that are
not in an ebook
What to do when your opponent plays a move that is NOT in your ebook.  How to get quick advice from the chess engine in the free Lite version of Chess Openings Wizard.
2015
Order the London II ebook featured in the video
 
 How to find TranspositionsHow to resize the ebook window.
See a demonstration of Chess Openings Wizard finding transpositions.
How to add diacritics (?!) to moves.
How to flip the board
2008
 
    
 Training WizardHow to use the Training Wizard to test yourself on your knowledge of your chess opening.
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Advanced Videos

Step by Step Analysis of your OpeningStarting from a PGN file of your games to a list of positions that the engine says you should look at, this video takes you step by step through the Professional version. It includes the slick trick of grabbing your games from lichess.
 Changing EnginesHow to change the chess engine in Chess Openings Wizard 
 Speedlearning
& Speedtesting
How to use Speedlearning and Speedtesting in Chess Openings Wizard Professional 
 Coming soonHow to create your own ebooks on any opening from PGN files of master games that are freely available on the web. 
 Coming soonCan studying only grandmaster games make you… delusional?! 
 BacksolvingHow to find the critical line(s) automatically.
This video shows the difference between a game database (trees of opening moves) and Chess Openings Wizard.
 
 Audio annotationHow to record your voice and the changes you make to the board so that it all plays back like a movie.
The “Haters gonna hate!” video
 
 Overnight AnalysisHow to analyze your opening repertoire using EPD files.
2017
 
 Coming soon – games statistics tiradeHow using a game database (ChessBase, Chess Assistant, MasterChess) with statistics can… mess you up! 
 Creating the Macintosh App
A sneak peek at the creation of the Macintosh app. 

Webinars

 COW Advanced
Webinar
Recording of a webinar for Chess Openings Professional 

MasterChess 7000 Videos

 MasterChess
7000 Intro
How to install MasterChess 7000 and search for games. 
 MasterChess 7000
and Chess Openings
Wizard
How to get MasterChesss 7000 games into Chess Openings Wizard. 
 Adding Engines to
MasterChess
How to change and add UCI engines to MasterChess. 

 

    

There are more videos coming.  Suggest one in the experts forum.

Chess Openings Wizard is based on Bookup 2000 so you can watch the older tutorial videos of Bookup 2000 as most of the functions are similar.

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