Chess Openings Trainer

Hello, I have been looking trhough all of this, but I have some doubts. I wanted something that could be seen from the mobile phone, that I did not have necessarily to introduce manually the repertoire, and If posible, not mandatory that have a data base with stats.

Options that I have seen (correct me if I am wrong) with the commented requirements (Phone...)

Chessable: I see that you have to buy books and that the program tells you the movement, I want to think  of them before having the solution..

Chess Opening Repertoire: It could be ok, but I do not want to intoduce all the movements manually, but with the page proposed here, it could work if I could introduce the PGN. In any case I have introduced, for instance, the mail variation of Evans Gambit and it makes me repeat nf3 at least twenty times before going on, I does not seem really practical

Chesstempo: it seems it could work, and it seems it has dabase included, the visualization on the computer or on the pone while you are training is quite bad, it is difficult to see the whole board on the screen on the phone it is just horrible (may be I am doing something wrong...)

I think that`s all.

Apart of them, in the computer:

- I have chessbase, I think something can be done there although I am not sure if it is good option or too complicated

-Chess Position Trainer: It seems good, but it has a high cost compared to the other options, not really sure if it worths while. If at least it had an App or Access..

I have to take a look as wll tomorrow (no time today) at the option proposed

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it seems interesting 

Thanks in advanced for your comments / advice

Another question, I want to introduce the Evan`s Gambit, I do not see PGNs on this page https://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html#openings where else I could find it, not to have to introduce manually myself......

I just update my training method a bit. Instead of going over the entire collection, I suggest amateurs like me focus on miniatures with less than 15 moves. The idea is borrowed from the series

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=catastrophe+chess

Focusing on these miniatures improve your tactics (right after the first 5-7 move of the opening, the games are about to end), an indirect but practical way to learn trap, avoid blunder as well as recognize opponent's blunder. One of the wonderful thing about miniatures is that there are often sacrifices in these game!

So, one simple method that improve your skills on tactics, trap, blunder recognition and sacrifice  

If you want pre-made repertoires and mobile use, disregard Chess Tempo.  It is not suited at all for either of those purposes.  Pre-made repertoires will work if you are bringing one in via pgn file(s), but Chess Tempo doesn't provide anything at all for that.

Chess position trainer has just been removed from Google play store. I guess I waisted my money on that app.

I meant to write chess repertoire trainer.

chessable does not give you the moves in advance you have to find them on your own, then get corrected. It shows asks you the moves you did wrong much more often then the no-brainers

You need Fritz 16, not chessbase, to train opening. There are two possible ways to do so in Fritz 16

1. Opening training, of course. You input you variation and replay.

2. Theme Blitz is a powerful tool for training transposition. Basically, you set up a board or paste the FEN into the notation. This is your starting position. Then, you click the option learn move. This will force the engine to make sure that the resulting structure is similar to the starting position. Most of the time, the resulting structure is exactly the same as the starting one. However, if you decide to test the program (ex: 1.e4 opening but you play 1.d4 or 1.c4) then you may receive a warning if it is impossible to reach the starting position from your move of choice; or it tries its best to reach something similar.

I still have to have a look into your system, I will be back with my comments, I am also preparing quite an agressive repertoire. Thanks

yeah write back how you got the evans gambit files if you get them

I will have a look I also have Fritz,.

What I am doing at the moment is not so bad, I have the gold subscription to this page so I see the explorer, I take a line and I try to guess the next moves. In paralel I compare this line with the APP analyze this, th ( I highly recomend it) it usess stockfish, and it help me to understand the opening, I see what could happen If I do another move,  or whenever I have a doubt. It Works well. But the idea of an opening trainer was interesting as an excercise and help to memorise some lines, but form my view it has to be something easy, if not it does not worth a while.

I think we have different look at opening training. I think you want to prepare a repertoire which involve lots of theories. I just want to be able to response well in a real game to survive the first 12 moves without a mistake. I want to build a strong foundation of opening principles. My Chemistry professor, a retired IM, told me that until I can confidently and comfortably response to any opening moves thrown to my face, and can decide which side to attack, when to break the center pawns, when not to and how to do so, I should not build any repertoire.

So, this is how I practicing opening. I play the moves as I want up to about 10-12 moves. Then, I check for blunder with 9 depth and 0 threshold I have 2 opening day per week. So, I will practice like this for an hour, about 70~80 games

There's a free and very good program called "Guess the Move". I like it very much. You can change some options, like you minimum thinking time, or you can use it with a chess engine as to compare the move made in the real game and the one made by you. You can download it here: https://sites.google.com/site/fredm/#h.p_ID_167

Do you know what was the latest version of Bookup or COW that supported the option to export ebooks as multiple games? I also need this. I I I use Chess Position Trainer to export a opening to pgn as multiple games. The number of games are unreasonable high for some reason. I remember that was not the case with Bookup or COW.

Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to this.  Hopefully someone has posted something like this in the Bookup forums and/or Mike Leahy himself catches wind of this problem, resolves it, and lets the rest of us know. 

I do not know why he rid it in the first place. Big mistake ... it was the one feature of his software that maintained its universal value amidst other software giants and new/improved websites kept entering the competition ... I would use COW first to create ebooks, then exported the lines/games/ebooks into ChessBase, Chess Tempo, Everyman Chess Viewer, and Chessable, for instance.  Now I have no more use for COW.