SEARCH FOR MANEUVERS. Using this tool, you can search for common piece maneuvers. For example, let’s find all the games with the Greek gift in the Opening Encyclopedia database. Open the Opening Encyclopedia database and select Search | Maneuvers in the main menu. The Search dialog box appears, with the Maneuvers pane on the right. Click on the small button with 3 dots above the Help button and make sure that ELITE is selected in the Select bases to search in window. To fill the board with doubled question marks, press [Ctrl] [Q]. Put the white xxxxxx on b1, the black king on g8 and the black pawn on h7 with the help of the piece palette. When this is done click on the arrow on the palette. Then drag the white xxxxxx from b1 to h7, and the yellow string ¤b1-h7/§ will appear in the Maneuvers list. Drag the black king from g8 to h7, and the second yellow string will appear: ¢g8-h7/¤. If you made a mistake and need to remove a maneuver from the Maneuvers list, just highlight it and press the Delete button below the list. Should you wish to remove all the maneuvers, click on Clear list. Now, when both moves are present in the Maneuvers list, look at the first string. It says that before the sacrifice the white xxxxxx stood on b1, though it could be on any other square along the b1-h7 diagonal as well. To correct this, highlight the first line, then click on the Change button and adjust the Details in the window that will appear. Mark the Undefined source square with a tick. You can also select Captured pieces, Promotion pieces, Set delay between previous and current maneuver (in half-moves), and Undefined destination square. For the purpose of our example these options are not needed, so press OK. The screen should appear as follows: Press Search to start searching. You can save the current position as a criterion for position search with the Copy to position criteria button; and conversely, you can import a position from the Search | Position window to the Search | Maneuver window with the Copy from position criteria button. Naturally, this feature is important if both the Position and Maneuvers check boxes in the Criteria included section are enabled.
