How do you practice your opening repertoire?

I would like to know how do you people use to practice your opening repertoire, if at all. Both when you are learning something new and maintaining the things you already learnt.

Do you use Space Repetition training such as Chessable/Lichess? Do you use courses, books, databases? Do you create personal notes (in Lichess study, for example)? What's your process like?

I personally have been using Chessable to learn new rep and I have been a bit insecure about it. Of course the spaced repetition works but doing that strictly for a whole/multiple courses seems a bit of an overkill. I also don't really like the idea of depending on a paid course to learn any new opening and I get an anxious feeling that I will forget my rep shortly if I don't keep the repetition schedule right (which I know it's not really going to happen).

I've been trying to use it a little bit loosely, trying to learn as many lines as I can and only repeating what I don't fully understand/have trouble memorizing from first sight.

I'm looking for new learning strategies because I know there's no way Scheduled Repetition of hundreds of lines is the most efficient way. I'll be happy to read all the details of your processes!

Probably the best way is to play multiple blitz games in the openings that you are learning. One will quickly run in the pitfalls of whatever opening is being studied.

Since you are 1500, the courses are rubbish.

"I'm looking for new learning strategies" ..yeah, right.

I was asked the same thrust of a question re: the 4 move checkmate and how he survives as black. So I launch into a talk about it, to which my opponent says 100% correct. And I test him, and he flops first move. Then says that all he needed was the moves which would crush white as retribution. So why didnt he speak up earlier. He was puzzled as to why he didmt.

Nowadays Id go modern...ask chatgpt. Its what people use. I was on Google Gemini myself and know for sure itd answer your question. But its the same problem. It only works if you "sync". If you demand a quick, fast answer you'll get one. But if you want an educative answer you'll get that. But some reason, people still bring out their toy car engine, and dont know its not the stockfish they hear of from the tcec.

Chessrepsdotcom is also great for practicing and expanding your repertoire

I have tried 6 or 7 of the Chessable courses on openings and have not found any of them to be useful. Of course they are probably not written for me I was most interested in one that covered an opening that has some tactical lines that nearly refuted it I wanted to see what the current evaluation was in the two lines of most interest to me, the author recommended lines that were in an opening book from the 1990s!

i like books on openings. I can play through the variations on a real board and spend as much time on them as I want. I can go back and review something much more easily than is possible with a video. And the best opening books provide explanations that are easier to remember than specific sequences of moves.

i then practice the opening in blitz games. I use the analysis function more than the Game Review function to analyze games in which I make a tactical error or fail to find a correct plan.

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I'm higher rated in slower time controls OTB. I just played some blitz here to get a feel for it and I'm just need to work on my time management (excuses and more excuses ).

But even so, I just find it fun to learn how different openings work, how the pieces work in different setups, differences in classical and hypermodern openings... I know it's not the most efficient way to get higher rated but there's no reason to adjourn having fun. I not going pro anyways

That's an interesting experience with Chessable! I would have imagined that being at master level it would be more useful. Did you found them too easy, is that it? Do you recall which courses you tried? You mentioned the video, but did you find the scheduled repetition useful for you?

I was going through the same thing a couple months ago. Tried a few tools I found on here, but ultimately was paying for multiple tools that should have been all in one, and was still having to flip to Lichess. A couple friends and I built Repertree.com, which has all the features we wanted for a repertoire builder and trainer + visualization tools. We think its the best tool we've tried, (slightly biased), but would love to hear what you think. Reach out for any help with issues or with building a repertree!

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I won’t say which Chessable courses I tried.

in most cases, I found them too simple. As I said above, they are not aimed at someone at my level.

I find it more fruitful to watch the commentary on super-GM tourneys. The commentators explain opening themes, how the opening transitions into middlegames and endings. The best commentators (Peter Leko, Peter Svidler, Judith Polgar, Christian Chiala(Sp?) are a joy to watch. The openings are not always the ones I like to play, but the advice and the modeling of how to analyze a position are priceless.

So here is how to develop an opening repertoire. At least how I do it. It is a combination of the following:
1) playing and studying your games
2) the study of games from past masters
3) utilize chess computers to see the best lines for your opening repertoire.
4) ask yourself “what if I did this when they do that”
5) ask yourself “why can’t I make this move when that happens”
6) in tournament play sometimes you have knowledge of your opponent’s opening. So utilize side lines in such cases to increase your win percentage.

Here is my chess opening repertoire:

1)Reti Gambit
2)Queens gambit Declined
3) colle system
4) London system
5) Ruy Lopez
6) Sicilian Defense
7) Nimzo Indian Defense
8) Benoni Defense
9) Benko Gambit.

The opening repertoire I have is based on utilizing Nf3 or Nf6 as much as possible on the first move and to utilize flank pawns as a way to take away the center from my opponent’s. It takes into account if my opponents play passively as well.

I also know Scandinavian

I play chess games.