Chess Position Trainer Software

What are your thoughts on this software?

With all the recent talk of chessable and its spaced repetition, I just wanted to give a shout out to this software which I've used for a few years.

It comes with no openings or positions at all. You input whatever positions or opening moves you want into it, and it sets up a schedule for you to repeat the moves. (I just use it for openings.) The software automatically plays the opponent's moves while you have to play your moves from memory. A line isn't marked as "learned" until you get it right from start to finish, and then in a few days it will pop up in your training schedule again to be repeated. You can view your schedule many days into the future.

There are basically two windows you spend time in, the training window (where you reproduce moves from memory) and the repertoire window where you add lines and make notes... you can also add lines that won't be drilled in the training section. Simply uncheck the box by a move.

I particularly like that you can add lines and make notes in the repertoire window. This way I can save my analysis in an organized way. Not as nice as e.g. chessbase, but still convenient.

Is the software you talking about just called Chess Position Trainer, and is the repertoire trainer free?

Chessable is free and does basically the same as CPT.

Thanks alot I appreciate it.

It's not really a trainer in that sense. You have to input all the moves and notes yourself. It's like a fancy electronic way of doing flash cards.

No.

CPT has no books, no learning materials, nothing like that (AFAIK).

Which is nice, because I find learning openings from books pretty boring. I like database + games I look up on my own.

@pfren Your students need to beat players training in the "wrong way" in order to believe in your methods? Is that what you are saying? It might be the case your method is not as good as you think, otherwise, you will be sizing your students against those players who are training in the "right way"... In any case, as a professional player and experienced coach that you are, it would be much nicer of you to give your advice to us amateurs willing to learn without "trolling" us...