Documentation

How to begin: who you are, your games, and from there the main things the app can do.

Only your games, or those of tournaments all over the world too: where to find them free on the web, what they are for, and how to thank the people who collect them.

The sidebar, the list of games and the game beside it: where you choose what to look at, and what you do with many games at once.

From a PGN file, from pasted text or from the online sites, studies too: how duplicates are recognised, and what is kept of their annotations.

When two names are the same person, when a name is a nickname, and what a search finds: the rules, with examples.

Games put together by hand, or found by a search that stays in the sidebar.

How the archive is doing, when it is worth compacting, the duplicates to remove, and how to make a backup.

Moves and variations, comments, symbols, arrows and times, with the engine alongside: the window where a game is written and studied.

Positions and lines studied apart from the games: an ending, an opening from a certain point, an idea to try.

Players, tournament, site, date and result of a game: what applies to it alone and what to all the games of the same player or tournament.

The same data written on many games at once: what gets written, what stays as it was.

The board to put together by hand: the start of a study, or the position to search for in the archive.

A game, a study, a repertoire, an opponent’s scouting report or a booklet of games, on paper or in a PDF, laid out as in a book.

What has been played from the position on the screen: the continuations, how they ended, and the games.

Searching by players, Elo, dates, tournament, opening and position, and keeping the search as a smart collection.

Arasan goes through a game, or many, and annotates them move by move: evaluations, mistakes with the right line, accuracy.

How you play, read from your games: results, Elo, openings, opponents, tournaments, move quality and time.

The lines you want to play with White and with Black, and where your games leave them.

An opponent’s dossier: who they are, where their games meet your repertoire, their games to explore, the scouting report and your notes.

Who you are for the app: the names, FIDE ID and usernames it recognises your games by, your Elo ratings and the link to your online account.

The app’s language, light or dark, the size of the text, how moves are written, and the colours and pieces of the board.

What is free, what Pro adds, how to start it and cancel it, and what stays yours if you stop.