Chessbook

This is such a good app for building and learning your opening repertoire. Soooo much better than Chessable in so many ways. I’ve struggled to learn an opening and then put it into practice but with this app it makes it so easy. I also love how it connects to my lichess and chess.com accounts and lets me know when I’ve deviated from my repertoire. Highly recommmend!

When you surpass 200 moves for both colours and you delete moves so you don’t have 200 moves it still thinks you do so it doesn’t allow you to add more moves to your repertoire.

I’ve paid for the premium version for a couple of months, and it has been great until it recently decided it was done working. Every time I try to open it immediately closes. My phone has plenty of storage and the network connection is fine. What a shame. I can’t recommend it to anyone in this state.

10/10 would call again.

What is this supposed to do? You enter 5 moves of an opening and then a few days later you practice them. Is that it? How do you add new moves? You can start another sequence of 5 moves, but can’t delete any sequence. There is no instruction manual. There must be more to it than this!!

I came in thinking this was an app that trained you and provided lessons, like chessable. Instead this app has you perform your opening move, then it memorizes your move, then you choose which of the following moves, the Ai should follow up with.. and so forth. this is the core of this app. It then saves these moves, and you repeat them over & over. I don’t get it? I’m here to learn from the masters see their courses. I have no idea about openings yet. Chessable offers exactly what this app offers and much more. Full repertoires courses with video and puts you in different situations you need to overcome. What chessable lacks is a constant repeat of the same move over and over, so we can memorize the tactic. Instead you’ll have to redo the course, just to redo that part tactic you’d like to memorize. I thought this was a chessable competitor and I was hoping for that replay feature. Unfortunately this app, is not that. I have no idea what is this app’s purpose, it’s not teaching you openings, it’s watching your openings. This app is definitely not for beginners or intermediate players like myself.

This is my first app review. For $5/month (I think it was around that), it’s an absolute no-brainer.

I never write reviews but this app delivers on exactly what I’ve been looking for. A simple app where I can create an opening I like and practice is over and over and then practice the most common branching lines over and over. Has definitely helped improve my openings.

Both the theory of this app and execution are stellar! One thing I would change is the notifications. If you could make the notifications customizable, like change the amount of moves per day. I would find it easier to open up the app and start practicing if the little red notification said “10”, compared to “78”. Of course, once you get going you might do all 78! but it’s just easier to approach with a lower count

This software is amazing. My only complaint is it doesn’t have the greatest user-friendly interface out there, but I’m probably just saying this because I’m a bit spoiled with chess.com’s layout. I’m grateful that the developers allow users to create so many opening repertoires without paying a dime. Soon enough, I’ll have my main lines, common variations, and pet lines down pat!