Chessable & PGNs

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loc7777777

So I've had all of Gotham PGN courses & really not a good way to use them for months.....until. 

I found Chessable. With a free account & move trainer these courses work beautifully. I suppose I'm wondering why did it take almost a year for me to find this? I've been asking seasoned players how to use these PGNs effectively for study. Chessable is still just "the woodpecker method" as a friend of mine would say. But a PGN reader doesn't test you in any way. At least Chessable takes you through all the variations move by move.

It makes me wonder if there is something even better? What do you use to make effective study with a professional PGN?

GregWXian

MoveTrainer in chessable is very good, I agree.

One of the strong player I talked while ago, told me to try to reproduce chess line/variation/sequence from memory, on physical board. I know it's more time consuming than doing this in the app, on the screen. But there's something special in moving physical pieces, that can't be reproduced on the screen.

GregWXian

My theory is, that taking pieces physically, engaged more senses, and that strengthens long-term memorisation.  

KingPawnStorm
I hear ya, having trouble navigating the pgn’s to study as well.

I got the Chessable pro and I’m turning his pgn’s into courses on there. If only he just did his courses on Chessable would save me a lot of time. 😂
loc7777777

Hey I hear ya. But importing them in isn't an issue & making your own course it's the fact that you have to be a member to do more than 5 at a time. Not that I need more than that but I have all of Gotham's so I'm going to have to leave one or 2 out in the cold unless I subscribe.....

GregWXian

MoveTrainer = ultimate solution to train using PGNs !!!

I was looking to see if there's any standalone software that does something similar as MoveTrainer. I couldn't find it. It would be nice to have some alternatives.