Get a Fritz 7 or Fritz 8 This program is absolutely essential for the
serious tournament player. Fritz will not only analyze your games. It will
annotate them and give you the tools to do your own custom annotation with
the assistance of the fritz engine. You can also add game variations from
one of the other databases you have in fritz into your very own games to see
how your play varied from the games of the grandmasters. The fritz database
utility alone is worth the price of purchase.

"john" wrote in message
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I have just joined a local club for some OTB games and want to prepare for
my weekly matches. I know some of my opponents always play the same
opening
and have been recording the games. How best do I go about creating a
database of the games and where I made my mistakes plus what my best
option
was in each game. Creating databases are not something I know a lot about
so
what arre the basics and which software is most commonly used.
John.