Save games in a database, add comments and variations, and quickly search the database for certain positions or characteristics. See how many times a position has occurred and what the grandmasters and others played then. View and analyze the games with the built-in computer programs and find the perfect moves in the endgame thanks to the included endgame database. Playing against the computer yourself is of course also possible.
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). The search is very fast. Often the reference window is updated within ⅒ of a second.
Mega Database contains 737,000 games. The List Window displays the contents of the database. You can choose which columns you want to display and their order. The TB column indicates whether the game is on Toernooibase3. Approximately 455,000 games are connected to Toernooibase. If a connection exists the program can show the game in Toernooibase.4
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. For endgames up to 8 pieces.1
The Kingsrow WLD endgame databases show the result of endgames up to 8 pieces.1
The Kingsrow DTW endgame databases show the depth of endgames up to 7 pieces.2
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.
Thin bars to the right of the board indicate the scores of the engines. Flits is good in finding deep combinations very quickly.
The engine instantly analyzes all moves and shows the scores in a bar chart.
Find all positions of the game in the database. In the Notation Window the positions found are highlighted.
Find the first position of the game that never occurred before the date of the game in question according to the games of the database. The Notation Window jumps to the novelty and highlights the position.
Find all positions of the game that never occurred before the date of the game in question according to the games of the database. In the Notation Window these novelties are highlighted.
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.
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.
Place a bookmark at the position you want to remember. Now you can load and replay other games and when you are done with them easily jump back to where you left off.
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. The Player Encyclopedia is automatically updated when you download games of the subscription.
You can create different layouts and easily switch between them. You can choose a favorite layout to display when the program is started.
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.
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.
Create a file suitable for word processors, internet, and other draughts programs.