There are several ways to navigate through the game:
Taking back moves
Sometimes you may desire to go back a couple of moves. Not to cheat but to see what ChessPartner does on your alternate moves. To take back moves several ways are available.
From the Moves menu the choice Back can be selected, or you may use Ctrl+T or Ctrl+left-arrow key combinations. Pressing the right mouse button when the pointer is over the Chess Board has the same effect. All these will take back a single move even when it was played by ChessPartner.
To move back a number of moves in one go, you may use the mouse to double click the move in the list. That move will then be the last one played on the board. The remaining moves are still in the list, available for moving forwards. The move list can also be altered through the keyboard using the standard MS-Windows key assignments.
The buttons in the toolbar can be used to navigate through the list.
The chess clock is stopped each time you change the last played move!
When you play a new move while not at the end of the list, a new variation is inserted.
Walking the move list forward
Choose Forward from the Moves menu or use Ctrl+V or Ctrl+right arrow keys to walk the move list towards the end. The fashion in which this operates is similar to the taking back moves procedure. We suggest reading that topic too.
Lines
ChessPartner has the option to play multiple lines in a single game. To create a line move back in the moves list from where you want start a alternative continuation, then just start playing the new moves. In the moves list this new variation is displayed in-between brackets and in a different color.
To leave the variation either click somewhere outside the line or press the MainVariant button.
Deleting moves or variations
Use the Delete move(s) function from the Moves menu or click the X symbol on the navigation toolbar to delete one or more moves or variations.
All moves following the current move are deleted. If you are inside a variation, moves are deleted until the end of the variation. If there are no moves left in the variation, the whole variation is deleted.
Promoting variations
Right click on the variation you want to promote and select the Promote variation function. This moves the variation one level up and at the same time makes that variation a subvariation.
e.g.
1. e4 e5 ( 1… e6 2. d4 ) 2. Nf3
Promoting 1..e6 gives the following result:
1. e4 e6 ( 1… e5 2. Nf3 ) 2. d4
Moving variations
This function moves a variation at the same level.
e.g.
1. e4 e5 ( 1… c5 2. Nf3 ) ( 1… e6 2. d4 ) 2. Nf3
After right clicking on the bold move and selecting Move variation up gives the following result:
1. e4 e5 ( 1… e6 2. d4 ) ( 1… c5 2. Nf3 ) 2. Nf3