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A handy tool for training in opening variations is offered by our Openings App, which, when travelling, the user can start on any mobile apparatus (and of course also from one’s home desktop). Especially if the choice has been tactically forcing opening systems, the user cannot get by without a considerable amount of learning if he or she wants to master the said system. After you have constructed your opening repertoire and integrated new variations by marking them, you have available to you some simple, but extremely useful, aids to learning.
The “Drill” function starts a playing mode in which you can enter the moves which belong to your opening repertoire. Deviations from the repertoire are marked by the App.
The “Autoplay” function is useful in helping with memorising. Instead of, as we did previously, painstakingly reading the variation in a book and executing the moves several times on the board to learn them, the App automatically presents the repertoire to the user on the chess board.
The user can define the speed at which moves are shown and preferences for playing games out within the repertoire.
The App plays through the opening variations several times so that important variations can be learned and memorised very quickly. It is possible to check how successful learning has been immediately since the program offers the possibility of personally inputting your own moves as a control.
To do so you simply click on the button “Make move”. The App changes to the starting position and you input your own moves while the App independently plays the moves stored in the repertoire for the opposing side.
The system thus supports rapid finding of one’s feet and learning relevant new opening variations in one’s own repertoire.
You can take another route with the function “Guess variation”. In this mode the App displays two positions from the repertoire which has been loaded.
In this mode it is all about, right from the starting position, inputting moves in variations for both sides those moves which in the long run lead to the final position displayed. The longer the variation, the more difficult it will be for the user. The button “Request hint” supports you as you input the moves; the program displays by highlighting on the board with colour, possible candidate moves.
The level of difficulty can be set with the help of the function buttons at the top of the screen. The higher the level, the longer the variation which will be displayed.
It is easy for the user to test this principle by, for example, loading one of the games being displayed in which the actual position on the board appears. The list of games with the actual position is to be found below the view with Live Book.
The “Guess variation” function also works with completely loaded games! After some try-outs with the function the principle quickly becomes clear. This “Guess variation” function is extremely useful if you are not well acquainted with the selected opening system and wish to work out as much as possible for yourself the important sequences of moves.
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