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I finish the series dedicated to the ChessPosDB chess match database manager with this article. In this post, I will explain how to install and configure the database server used with the application, which can be Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server. Whichever database server you choose, you can install it on the same computer as the application or on another more powerful computer that you can access through your local network.

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This post is the fifth in a series of articles about the ChessPosDB application, which allows you to store many chess games in different professional database engines and search for them with a wide variety of options. Here, I will show how to query the database with the filters explained in the previous ones. We will also see the chess match editing options, which allow adding comments and new tags.

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This article is the fourth of a series of articles dedicated to the ChessPosDB application, a chess game database manager with a powerful search engine. Here, I will finish the section about the search filters by showing the chess match filters. Those filters can include several movement or position filters, which we have already seen in previous posts.

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This post is the third of the series of articles about the ChessPosDB database manager application. Here you also have a link to the first article in this series, in case you want to start reading from the beginning. In the present article, I will continue commenting on the rest of the movement and position filters that can be applied to find chess games in the database. As you may recall from the previous article, we can combine these filters in multiple ways to build virtually any query that you can think of.

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In this series of articles, I will comment on a chess game database manager, ChesPosDb. In the first article in this series, I explained how to load chess games in the database using PGN files, which you can download from many Internet sites. In this article and the following ones, I will show the different filter types that you can build to search chess matches in the database.

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In this series of articles, I will present an application to manage a chess match database, ChesPosDb. It is not a program that plays chess; it only stores matches, but it allows queries with a large number of options: searching for games in which a series of moves occur, either one after another or separated by several moves, and even look for partially defined positions, no matter in which place on the board the pieces are located.

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