Answers.Body: <p><a href="http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/chessbase12_download" rel="nofollow">Chessbase</a> is a commercial product that solves your problem.  Any position in Chessbase is in essence a bookmark.  You can just click on the move/position you want to go back to (all the moves are available visually beside the chess board).  I believe the same functionality is available for free with <a href="http://scid.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Scid</a>.  </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>In the days before electronics, I managed this with a pocket magnetic set. I'd follow along playing the game on the board, and when I wanted to explore a variation I set the "return" position on the magnetic set to save until I was done and wanted to go back.</p>
  
  <p>These days <em>every</em> chess database of any stripe will allow you to jump directly to a given move. So you follow along, create a new variation, follow it, and then with one click you jump back to the original position.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm wondering if there is any chess software or portable chess computer that allows a position to be bookmarked while a variation is examined?
  For example, it's possible to download pgn for games analyzed in Chernev's logical chess. However, there isn't a diagram for every position, and occasionally the author outlines alternate moves and their consequences. While it's possible to follow through this analysis on a board and "unplay" the moves back to the point where this divergence from the actual game takes place, this can be time-consuming. What I'm looking for is the opportunity to bookmark a point in the game, follow the variation through, and then click back to the bookmark to continue on with the game, rather than clicking a back arrow for every move that was made.
  Thanks</p>
  
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Title: Is there software or a device that allows bookmarking positions to allow variation analysis?
ThreadText: # Is there software or a device that allows bookmarking positions to allow variation analysis?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-09)
  
  I'm wondering if there is any chess software or portable chess computer that allows a position to be bookmarked while a variation is examined?
  For example, it's possible to download pgn for games analyzed in Chernev's logical chess. However, there isn't a diagram for every position, and occasionally the author outlines alternate moves and their consequences. While it's possible to follow through this analysis on a board and "unplay" the moves back to the point where this divergence from the actual game takes place, this can be time-consuming. What I'm looking for is the opportunity to bookmark a point in the game, follow the variation through, and then click back to the bookmark to continue on with the game, rather than clicking a back arrow for every move that was made.
  Thanks
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2013-08-09. Score: 3
  
  [Chessbase](http://chessbase-shop.com/en/products/chessbase12_download) is a commercial product that solves your problem. Any position in Chessbase is in essence a bookmark. You can just click on the move/position you want to go back to (all the moves are available visually beside the chess board). I believe the same functionality is available for free with [Scid](http://scid.sourceforge.net/).
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2013-08-10. Score: 1
  
  In the days before electronics, I managed this with a pocket magnetic set. I'd follow along playing the game on the board, and when I wanted to explore a variation I set the "return" position on the magnetic set to save until I was done and wanted to go back.
  
  These days *every* chess database of any stripe will allow you to jump directly to a given move. So you follow along, create a new variation, follow it, and then with one click you jump back to the original position.
  
  
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