• by grimpulo

  Hi, I'd like to train my pattern recognition through a spaced repetition system (the flash card concept) your product seems to offer, as in most srs programs it's rather painful to input chess positions. CPT focuses more on the opening repertoire management. Do you think it's possible to handle tactical or positional problems and test my knowledge of their patterns through the flash cards concept, before I struggle to make it work? Thanks.

• by daegen999

  This program has a VERY high learning curve. When are they going to make a user friendly chesss opening program. You have to download the how to manual as well as the book opening separately. I gave up on this program. Its a very frustrating and a waste of time. It is the 21st century. People do not want to spent hours reading manuals and having to deal with multiple steps. Design the program right. This isnt the 90's..

• by DoorbellX

  It's just a game simulator.

• by MarcazzarSmish

  I there a version for Mac OS X?

• by lakeland

  good things come to those who wait and it really is worth it if you want to learn an opening quickly. In reference to daegen999 i haven't met any chess software that is easy to use straight away, Fritz 12 for instance!

  Create a pgn database

  Fill it with different games or a few move made up games with particular move orders you want to learn

  Create a new repetoire and call it say Ruy Lopez (if thats what you want to learn?)

  The sub-repotoires can be anything but normally better to call it a variation of the main opening, but you could have 'early trap' or 'unusual 3rd moves'

  There are 2 ways that i like to use it for

  1. Click Training and learn move orders. This i have found fantastic especially against strong players who tend to keep to the same move orders in a variation.

  2. you can use it to check games that you have already played and see where your opponent/or you changed the variation or move order, automatically. This is slightly trickier to do but easy after the first time, if you struggle to figure it out then i'm more than happy to help.

• by tatercat

  Guten Tag, Herr ChessPositionTrainer. Sorry, I am just learning German.

  Anyway, I downloaded the program and I am having some difficulties with using it. First off, I open up the program, and everything seems fine and dandy, then I click on a button (new repertoire, load repertoire, etc.), then the program freezes and doesn't respond.    Second, I luckily got past that stage and created a repertoire. Then an error message pops up saying: "An error occured while updating the candidate move list: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." How does one do that??  Lastly, it sometimes tells me that somebody else is using the repertoire. witw? If it improves ill let you know

• by ChessPositionTrainer

   

  Hi Grimpulo,

  CPT 3.3 let you train tactical games with the flash-card concept. CPT 4 is using an improved flash-card concept (as you mention: space repetition), but it doesn't support tactical games yet (planned for a future version).

  Stefan

• by Floop62

  I'm intrigued by this but how the h*ll do you get it to work? I know I'm not very techy but I've tried - I've taken the above steps - and the thing just doesn't function. I've got two machines - one using XP and one Vista but it doesn't work on either of them. Can anyone help?

  I'm afraid I can only be very cross about this tool as it has stolen about 5 hrs of my life.

  Is it possible to post negative votes!?

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