Chess Openings Trainer Pro

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About this game

Pro-version advantages:
✔ 100% ad-free and offline.
✔ One time purchase.
✔ Unlimited games.
✔ Get full power from chess engine.
✔ PGN: import up to 40 moves.
✔ Export to PGN format.
✔ Restore your database.

In chess, a winning game starts with the very first move. It doesn't matter how creative you may be in the middle game or endgame if you lose the opening. Your goal while playing the opening is to reach a familiar and comfortable position.

This app will help you define a complete chess opening plan and will train you to execute it. It will also allow you to define mid-games or end games if you also want to train on these aspects of the game. The app uses an proven memorizing technique called "spaced repetition" which is probably be the most powerful technique in existence for improving your brain's ability to recall what you study. It continuously identifies moves that give you more challenge and helps you to improve by using an effective pattern of repetitions. The perfect execution of the plan you have prepared will give you an advantage against any opponent, even more so when it comes to timed games.

The concept is very simple: you select and enter only one move for your own color (your best move) and then you enter all possible opponent's moves in response to your move.

A quick reference guide is available here:
https://www.beadapps.com/

Main features:
♞ Ability to practice various topics: openings, mid-games or end-games.
♞ Ability to create folders and segregate games in an organized way.
♞ Ability to import PGN files (moves and comments).
♞ Ability to export your games to PGN file format.
♞ Ability to add personal comments in your games.
♞ Ability to read aloud comments using your device's text to speech engine.
♞ Ability to add graphic elements (arrows and colored squares) to illustrate the tactical points when editing a game (by a long press on a tile of the chessboard).
♞ Compatible with ChessBase graphic commentary.
♞ Ability to re-order candidate moves in your games (by a long press in the moves' list).
♞ Ability to resume playing against the chess engine when you reach the last position of a game.
♞ Ability to backup your repertoire, restore it on another device, or share it with your friends.
♞ Automatic identification of your openings using the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (ECO).
♞ Automatic calculation and display of material difference.
♞ Ability to handle transpositions.
♞ Ability to customize app theme, chessboard colors and chess pieces set.
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♞ A built-in chess engine (Stockfish) helps you to find the best moves for your games!

Several operating modes are available for regular training:
♞ target weaknesses (default):
The computer simulates opponent moves based on your scores and targets your weaknesses.
♞ full coverage:
The computer simulates opponent moves sequentially and ensures to cover all possible paths of your game.
♞ random mode:
The computer simulates opponent moves based on the probability of occurrence of each move during a game.

"Spaced repetition" type training (flash cards):
♞ The computer select random positions within your game using a custom learning algorithm.

When opening the app for the first time, the first step is to create a new game and record the moves your want to learn.
Once you are done with entering moves you are ready to start your training.


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Updated on
Aug 31, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.8
933 reviews
Roger Goodell
April 30, 2024
Excellent app to reinforce opening repotoire... Only recommendation I have is to somehow visibly show where the user has entered multiple moves in the same transformations. Oftentimes, a different move order causes identical positions on the board. It would be nice to see where one move order caused me to react one way and a differnt set of move orders incorrectly caused me to alter my logic for some reason. Having said this...the app is well thought out.
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Tobias Fuchs
January 21, 2023
This app allows to enter multiple variations, but ONLY for the opponent's moves. While this is fine, what if you don't always want to play the same variation? That's especially relevant if you want to play lesser known variations. There's no good workaround to deal with this issue. I also feel like the UI and user experience could be improved in some areas, especially when "drawing" on the board. Summary: Great app to learn openings ONLY IF you always play the same (the best) variation.
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beadapps
June 3, 2023
Thanks for your review!
Dimitris K
February 27, 2021
This is the best app I have ever used. Very intuitive and with all the settings and features that matter and was searching for and could not find elsewhere. Tried the opening training tools of all known sites and none had some basic features that I wanted. Most of their settings were around spaced repetition leaving very little else for you to setup according to your needs. Was so frustrated that I even thought of building my own training tool (I am a developer after all) but couldn’t quite believe that no one else had done something close to what I wanted. Therefore, I searched deeper for one last time and I came to this. That might explain why to my eyes looks like an oasis in a desert and why I am so enthusiastic about it. Few of the things that I like: 1) It is very intuitive and every feature is perfectly explained. You don’t need to be one of its developers in order to demystify what some of its settings exactly do (unlike other tools). 2) It has both full coverage and spaced repetition, together with stats, which you can erase after some time and try from scratch. Exactly what I wanted, since you want to cover all your lines and after learning them, the best way to test your knowledge is to reset the stats and see how close to 100% you can get. Full coverage is a must, instantly comprehensible stats and ability to reset them are a must as well. 3) You can either play all moves or start after a predefined number of moves. This is also very helpful, because sometimes it is cumbersome to play all moves from start, but other times might be confusing to start from let us say move 6, without having played the previous moves. This setting is a must also. 4) The move browser is nice, giving you a quick look to all opponent’s moves. 5) Every screen has a tone of features and information perfectly arranged in such a small space that looks like a design miracle. 6) Importing and managing your openings works well and effortlessly.
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beadapps
April 4, 2021
Thanks for this awesome review! This is probably one one the most complete review we had so far! It is very encouraging for us to see how much users appreciate the app and take the time to share their experience.

What's new

♞ Minor bug fixes.