Software for interactive engame study

Hello !

I'm horrible at endgames, therefore I picked up Pandolfini's endgame course to study. However, I would like to practice the positions in that book against an engine to assimilate the material.

So, i'm looking for a software that would let me do just that : setup and save all the positions in the book, then randomly select one in the custom set to play against the engine. Kinda like interactive endgame flashcards.

I know that LucasChess offers endgame training but, AFAIK, it's on preset positions. I would like to play the book's positions because the theory behind them is explained but I can't do it with that software.

Any suggestions ?

Thank you !

I understand what you want. You want to play the endgame position in shuffle mode like in music playlist.. I suggest you use a random number generator to chess the endgame position you want to play. If you have 100 endgame position, your random number generator can choose from 1 to 100. As for auto shuffle of the endgame position. I have lno idea.

I remember. scid v pc have that function to choose randomly from a game list.

You could use lichess study for that. Set the whole sequences up as different studies and then use the 'continue from here' function.

Chessable might help. There are a couple of free endgame courses. It uses spaced repetition, so the positions you get wrong are repeated at shorter intervals, the ones you get right at longer intervals. The effect is that the positions you are studying come up randomly as a review (ok not quite randomly but you get the idea). The material is taught, with good explanations. I'm doing the free Basic Endgames course which has about 200 positions. Much of the material is also covered by Silman's endgame book, so I study from this alongside Chessable. Google Chessable for more information.

I think ChessTempo has an endgame puzzle engine and you can configure the type of puzzles it presents, e.g. k+P v k, k+p+p v k, etc.

I'm no expert but I believe I could create a program to do this, it would take a while though and I'm busy so I would want to be paid. The only problem is making the computer vi I'm not sure if i would be able to make a computer opponent that would play well.

You could probably integrate one of the opensource engines and have them play from a given position. Would be an interesting project to be honest.

there's a built in chess engine on most computers if you press alt f4

thanks for the trick i'm gonna press alt f4 now, thanks!

wow it actually works

Yeah, Scid vs. PC was a great option for that kind of interactive study. Talking of such software solutions, you should probably have some information about developers, which can help you with developing such projects or standalone software applications. Here is a link ( https://upplabs.com/ ), to the website of UppLabs, one of the most reliable dev company, which helped our company to build an application, and they made it pretty fast I should say.

Kind of surprised nobody said that you can do that here in chess.com.

Go to Learn>Analysis in the main menu.

Choose the Setup option. Set up the position. In the very bottom right, there is a "Practice vs computer" button.

You can save different positions and use a random number generator to know which one you're playing today.

noice trick

Play it on a tablet and play the moves on the physical board. There aren't notes or annotations, however studying the moves will lead you to discover what you must. When learning about endgames, I believe that the most important thing is having an excellent choice of positions which is exactly what this book provides. the best of that. At this time we also use a software to manage our magazine subscriptions and billing process.

One very important caveat. Engines do not play the same way as humans do and in some situations, the engine doesn't follow the essential lines. This is a constant issue in playing against engines in terms of learning, so be aware of this and be sure to thoroughly examine all variations when it happens.

I like using chess board and play endings against myself.

There are numerous solutions for what you want to do, as others have stated. Another solution is to use Fred Mellender's YATT program for Windows (Yet Another Tactics Trainer). YATT uses spaced repetition and serves up the positions in random order. You can take the positions from Pandolfini's book and convert them to YATT format.

https://sites.google.com/view/fredm/home#h.pqc4wgcw4osd

Ok