In ChessBase whenever you load several games at the same time, it is nevertheless possible to keep an eye on the various windows you have opened. You either switch between the individual windows with the standard hotkey combination ALT-TAB or you look down to the Windows taskbar.

 

Every window you have opened there is represented by a small button.

 

The program offers you some useful functions which help you to customise the way it works to suit yourself. Let us assume that you have loaded a game into the board window. In that board window there exists on the menu underneath the tab File the heading “Recent games”.

 

 

There you will find links to the latest games you have loaded and played through. A click enables you to immediately load again any one of these games in the short list.

 

In addition you will find under Game history the last games you have loaded and worked on. You will find a chronological listing of these in the left-hand pane of the database window, the database explorer.