Hi there,

i was fidlling with chessbase 8, and was wondering how to create these great
multimedia annotations, with red squares pointing at an attacked square, two
arrows indicating a skewer, etc etc. I've seen it in other ppl's chessbase
files. Is this done outside chessbase? Because I can't find it in chessbase
itself.


thanks in advance,

Martin

"Martin" wrote in message .. .
Hi there,

i was fidlling with chessbase 8, and was wondering how to create these great
multimedia annotations, with red squares pointing at an attacked square, two
arrows indicating a skewer, etc etc. I've seen it in other ppl's chessbase
files. Is this done outside chessbase? Because I can't find it in chessbase
itself.


thanks in advance,

Martin

It's in chessbase.

If you hold down the Alt key and left-click a square, it should turn
green

Alt+Ctrl and left-click should turn it yellow, Alt+Shift - red.

If you hold down these same combinations of keys and left click on the
square from which you want an arrow to start, hold down the mouse
button (just as you would if you were going to move a piece) then move
the mouse pointer to the square at which you want the arrow to point,
then release the mouse button, this should produce arrows in these
same three colours.

So, for example, if you wanted to produce a yellow arrow to illustrate
the first move of the Dunst/van Geet opening, you would hold down
Alt+Ctrl, left click on b1 and hold the mouse button, move the mouse
pointer to c3 and release the mouse button.

hth

Mark

"Martin" wrote in rec.games.chess.misc:


i was fidlling with chessbase 8, and was wondering how to create these
great multimedia annotations, with red squares pointing at an attacked
square, two arrows indicating a skewer, etc etc. I've seen it in other
ppl's chessbase files. Is this done outside chessbase? Because I can't
find it in chessbase itself.


Consult the help files or read the manual.
Hit F1 and look for "graphic commentary".

Squares and arrows are no multimedia annotations.
Multimedia annotations are sound, video and pictures.

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