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Re: Chess Openings Wizard Help
Reply #4 - 05/07/25 at 13:34:11
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One can buy integrated chess books/databases for many chess programs. Chessbase, Forward chess, Modern-Chess, and Chessable provide a complete environment for playing through a purchased book with the capability of personal or engine analysis of "what if" lines.

I also use Chess Opening Wizard (COW), not so much for purchased books (where it greatly lags the competition) as for a book/data base that I have concocted and which resides on my computer. This is just my choice, and not a recommendation.

Given my choice of COW, the next topic is integration. I previously developed a COW file on D38-D39. I have Krishnater's Chessable course on the Manhattan. One cannot simply do a mass download/import or mass copy and paste. However, a slower but still efective way works.

I open the Chessable product in Windows and give it 60% of the screen. I resize my COW file in the remaining space. I don't think it is too cumbersome to play the moves in both environments. Also, I can copy a comment from Chessable and paste it into COW. I do so with attribution.

Every program match-up is different. I decided to mention this Chessable-COW match because I worked on it this morning and it's fresh on my mind.

Fans of other chess tools can argue that COW use is optional. Probably true, but I find it a useful tool for integrating several products (to include ChessPublishing dowloads!).
  
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Re: Chess Openings Wizard Help
Reply #3 - 02/22/23 at 15:43:32
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I "export line as a game." I have done that many times and it works fine. I have not used similar commands, Export Ebook as a game or Expert Ebook as many games. So I can't help you.

I often go in the other direction, i.e., PGN to COW.

I recently hit upon a technique that I find very useful. One can import a set of annotated games into COW. What happens when you do so from two sources? How do you keep track of who said what?

Perusing the original PGN file, it appears that comments are preceded by "{". Simply "search and replace all" to change "{" to something like "{ChessPublishing:  ". Then import the file to COW. Now all comments from ChessPublishing appear are preceded by "ChessPublishing:  ". You follow the same procedure on annotated games from another source, say Modern-Chess.
  
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Re: Chess Openings Wizard Help
Reply #2 - 02/11/20 at 00:30:41
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Build 93; Windows - thanks for that link; he said he would perhaps return to this issue after the mobile versions came out; if I'm not wrong those did come out recently, so maybe now it'll be addressed?  Smiley
  
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Re: Chess Openings Wizard Help
Reply #1 - 02/10/20 at 20:23:40
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You don't say which version you are using. COW had this feature at one time, it was removed. I don't know when it will be restored.
http://www.bookup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=69
  
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Chess Openings Wizard Help
02/10/20 at 16:19:46
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Hi, does anyone know if there is a way to export all of the lines I have entered into COW as one big PGN? PGN -> export line as game seems to only export one line, the one I'm currently viewing, as opposed to the whole repertoire.

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