Chessable

I was wondering if Chessable is worth using?

Chessable is really great if you know how to use it.

First of all, the website is conceived in a way that you don’t want to miss a single day of training. My streak there is almost 600 days. The second thing is that you have a community to discuss your progress, to ask questions about enigmatic moves in a repertoire, etc. I am the guy who probably asked more question than everybody else there, and the answers come often from titled players, FMs, IMs and some GMs. 

You have also a leaderboard in every book, so you will have additional motivation to review your lines regularly.

We should not forget that Chessable is based on spaced repetition. That means that you are able to learn a repertoire with 200 or more lines if you are consequent in your training. I think I learned more than 5 thousands positions there (unfortunately I chanced my repertoire for black against 1.e4 several times, so I still need a lot of reviews to get a solid defence). 

There are several free books there to give a try. I can recommend some if you need help. They have books on tactics, endgames, strategy and openings, and several are free. You just have to register.

Thanks! Appreciate the info

Have you registered with chessable.com yet? What is your opinion on their free courses? Those should give you an idea on their teaching model.

To me, their strength is the quiz mode of popular or important chess books that were on print or ebook format only. People had to be creative when making a workbook out of their chess books. Chessable has done that in an electronic format that people prefer nowadays.

I will definitely check out chessable. Thanks to those that responded

I also use Chessable. Like most any tool, there are good and bad ways to use it. Do try the free course. For example, there is a free course by John Bartholemew on Rook Endings that is quite good. Make sure that you watch the videos that go with that course so you actually understand the why.

And that brings us to the bad part of Chessable. You need to guard against just memorizing a position or move sequence without understanding the why behind it.

I like Chessable enough that I have purchased several books for it, including two (Yusupov vol 1) and Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, that I own in book form.