How can I practice/drill against a certain opening?

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Avatar of JackOfAllHobbies

I want to learn to defend against a certain opening (English c3) as black.  Is there a way I can play a computer or engine to just constantly play that opening against me?

Avatar of Diakonia

Get the free version of Chess Openings Wizard, and download the weekly games from theweekinchess.com

Create e-books for the openings you want to learn. 

Avatar of kleelof

There is this really nice little app called Chess Position trainer. You can tell it what openings you want to learn and it drills you until you get it.

Avatar of JackOfAllHobbies

I will try it.  Seems free too!

http://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/index.php/en/download

Avatar of JackOfAllHobbies

http://www.bookup.com/download/

Avatar of Charetter115

You can change the starting position on this site in computer matches

Avatar of Dale

You could try saying to your friends something like if I buy lunch will you play me starting from a specific opening.

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Dale wrote:

You could try saying to your friends something like if I buy lunch will you play me starting from a specific opening.

Hey Dale, if you buy me lunch I will use whatever opening you want. Laughing

Avatar of JackOfAllHobbies

Ok, does anyone have any idea how to actually use Chess Openings Wizard?  I simply want to practice against the English opening.   I have no idea how to use this software.


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In Lucas Chess you can play against different entgines and set it up to play certain openings. Also has some good tactics puzzles included in the ap.

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JackOfAllHobbies wrote:

Ok, does anyone have any idea how to actually use Chess Openings Wizard?  I simply want to practice against the English opening.   I have no idea how to use this software.


Play the tutorial, it will explain what to do.

Avatar of JackOfAllHobbies

I played the tutorial, it was useless.

Are we talking about the same thing?

Can you tell me what to click to pratice English opening?

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JackOfAllHobbies wrote:

I played the tutorial, it was useless.

Are we talking about the same thing?

Can you tell me what to click to pratice English opening?

Sorry Jack.  Its not a hard process, but will take a lot of typing to explain.

Avatar of pmsoltani

Recently came across listudy.org, which does exactly what you want. And it's completely free!

Avatar of jpaul_lyons

I don’t know about all these apps & whatnot. The good old method sounds good, which is just get open the MCO book and play over all the lines in that opening over and over, and then maybe get a database of traps and miniatures in that opening, play through it a hundred times.  I’ve never done all that myself, but I bet it works pretty good.