Menu File – Options – Misc
Right click retracts
Right-clicking the board normally produces a search menu. But when you are entering large numbers of games you might want to use it to retract moves. The right-click retract allows you to enter an alternative move which overwrites the original one without a query.
Register as PGN reader
ChessBase registers it own database formats in the Windows Explorer. This means that double-clicking a database file will open it with ChessBase. You can also have it do the same for PGN files files if you want.
Announce moves
Read out entered or replayed moves loudly.
Speak text annotations
The user can have the moves and text comments read aloud while replaying a game. For this to work it is necessary to activate the function.
Board sounds
Sounds for setting up the board, the ticking of the clock and the moves are played during a game.
Evaluation sounds
A sudden rise/drop in the evaluation of an analysis engine is accompanied by a warning sound.
Show Opening
Shows the name of the current opening in the status line.
Game History
Enables automatical saving of all your work in the daily history database.
Use Theme Keys
Theme keys are only available optionally. Searching for similar endgames or similar structures is more precise and delivers much more exact results. Here you activate or deactivate them.
Mouse Wheel execute Moves
If you would like to navigate quickly through the notation of a game, you can do so very quickly with the mouse wheel.
Save last Game in Cloud Clip
In the options you can specify whether the most recently opened game should be saved in the Cloud Clip database.
Yellow Arrow
When you load a game from a database and play through it the move which was last played (as in the case of our chess programs) is highlighted on the chess board with transparent yellow arrow. That allows you t see at a glance which was the last move played in the game which is in our view helpful. If you do not wish to see this move highlighted you can deactivate the display.
Mark Move with Arrow
When you load a game from a database and play through it the move which was last played (as in the case of our chess programs) is highlighted on the chess board with transparent yellow arrow.
Merge transpositions
This function refers to the merging of games. Within ChessBase the user can select several games in the games list and merge them into a variant tree.
Example:
1.e4 d6 2.d4 d5
1.d4 d6 2.e4 d5
These variants can be optionally combined or not with the function, these are frequently occurring move changes.