I thought chessbase used to have a program called (Moto or something ) that
allowed you to create your own keys to do searches similar to what you are
requesting. But I could be wrong!


"Mr. Plow" wrote in message
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I am trying to create my own tactics "book" that I can use to emphasize
areas I need to work on. Sort of like the Reinfeld 1001 .pgn file except
personalized.

For instance, say I need to work on knight forks. I want to create a .pgn
file of 100 positions where there is an immediate knight fork that will
lead
to a gain of material.

Can Chessbase, or Chess Assistant, or SCID, or any database filter a
database based on imminent knight fork? If so, I could open up each game
and copy the FEN positions to a pgn file, then work through them one by
one
on my computer.

Alternatively, can any of the databases filter for all games that have a
forced mate in X moves or less? That way I could create my own Checkmates
workbook.

Thanks.