Chessbook - Master openings

Like the title suggests, My ELO has risen by 1000 after getting this app! The opening repertoire builder is the main attraction, but don’t sleep on the master games. Good opening muscle memory is important but those master games really help you see what kind of ideas you should be looking for in the middle game and end game. A five star is more than fair but I still do have some requests to make this app more useful long term, even after Ive locked in opening theory. These are my requests: 1. a way to drill the “how to play from here” suggestion when you reach your coverage goal for each line. Instead of practicing individual moves, the goal would be to memorize the key concepts from those suggestions. Sure I could do that with flash cards but to be able to do the whole thing in the app would be very helpful. 2. I’d like to be able to nickname all my opening lines using the annotations in the builder, and to be able to associate entire master games with those specific lines—a way to save snippets and assign them to my opening line would help too!! Then when I play through a master game, or practice, I can choose to hide or show the name of the line that I’ve created. Since using Chessbook, I’ve improved massively since I’m usually able to build an opening advantage. However, a common trend is that I tend to lose that advantage in the middle game because that’s where the muscle memory ends and sound ideas have to begin. If I also can build an arsenal of ideas to supplement my opening knowledge, this app will allow me to go even higher and keep me from plateauing. Regardless, thank you to the devs for this great product!

This app is literally the answer to my prayers, and that it is an actually sensible system for learning openings that doesn’t require memorizing extremely complicated if/then charts The only issue is that I wish it would pause for a moment after you complete a move sequence so that you can absorb the position The instructions could also be a little bit more clear on how to get started because I didn’t realize how great it is until I really stuck with it

I can't remember the last time I wrote an App Store review. But I have to for this app. Built in engine, % seen in GM games, names for variations 7+ moves in. The free options are fantastic, and i went to pro strictly to support the devs as I have my entire (limited) repertoire in and only use 50%. If you have any experience with file management, then the structures of how to arrange your openings help determine the built in spaced repetition. If you have one major line you wanna flush out with several variations, add that and practice. If you have several 5-7 move deep shorter openings (common for low elo like myself) it's easy to set those up and get more familiar with all of them after two weeks and not even realize it. The only "effort," I put in was tapping through the suggested responses with what I see in my games. Now the platform offers me spaced learning, games with similar tactics, and common variations to continue a line once I'm familiar. AND THEY HAVE A WEB PLATFORM FOR FREE! An amazing app that's already improved my openings greatly with the least amount of work put into having it be useful. 6/5 new standard