Thanks for those that set up their Chessable accounts. I have a demo with the Chessable support staff on Monday and I will have more details to share. So, we will have access to quite a library of chess books. This week's Chess Token Challenge is to find a free Chessable Book and start playing with the system. Find a free opening book on this page of Chessable: https://www.chessable.com/chess-openings/all/all/free/. Here is a writeup from my experience learning how to play against the Alapin.
Please let me start by explaining how Chessable works. It is different and if you don’t understand the approach, it could be frustrating.
Chessable promotes learning of patterns (and opening lines) through spaced repetition, testing and practice, imitation and implicit learning. You can read more about it on their website https://www.chessable.com/science/.
So how does this translate into the Chessable. You have an online chessboard and move the opening lines. Chessable will ask you to repeat the moves leading to the position. You will then be asked for the next move in the position. Once you find it, you will then be asked to repeat the line from the beginning. Each time you repeat this exercise you will go one move longer.
Here is an example. I picked a free book on the Alapin highlighting lines for Black to learn.
I completed the first chapter. I did not know the line it was teaching and so it repeated the variation several times until I could repeat the line accurately 3 times in a row (probably took 3 times since I got is wrong a few times. You can see that I learned 13 moves in this line. I was accurate 76% of the time (I got the right move 3 out of every 4 tries).
You may watch a video of me doing this lesson by clicking on the following link.
Dear Pawn Stomers,
Thanks for those that set up their Chessable accounts. I have a demo with the Chessable support staff on Monday and I will have more details to share. So, we will have access to quite a library of chess books. This week's Chess Token Challenge is to find a free Chessable Book and start playing with the system. Find a free opening book on this page of Chessable: https://www.chessable.com/chess-openings/all/all/free/. Here is a writeup from my experience learning how to play against the Alapin.
Please let me start by explaining how Chessable works. It is different and if you don’t understand the approach, it could be frustrating.
Chessable promotes learning of patterns (and opening lines) through spaced repetition, testing and practice, imitation and implicit learning. You can read more about it on their website https://www.chessable.com/science/.
So how does this translate into the Chessable. You have an online chessboard and move the opening lines. Chessable will ask you to repeat the moves leading to the position. You will then be asked for the next move in the position. Once you find it, you will then be asked to repeat the line from the beginning. Each time you repeat this exercise you will go one move longer.
Here is an example. I picked a free book on the Alapin highlighting lines for Black to learn.
I completed the first chapter. I did not know the line it was teaching and so it repeated the variation several times until I could repeat the line accurately 3 times in a row (probably took 3 times since I got is wrong a few times. You can see that I learned 13 moves in this line. I was accurate 76% of the time (I got the right move 3 out of every 4 tries).
You may watch a video of me doing this lesson by clicking on the following link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_KabsTvKU1zjgFttpXbymm__g8YkVYHS/view?usp=sharing
Take care,
Jim