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Introducing Smart Train: Spaced Repetition for Chess Openings
Smart Train adds performance-based spaced repetition to Chess Prep Pro, helping you focus practice on repertoire positions that need more attention.
Focus your chess opening practice with Smart Train
Smart Train is Chess Prep Pro’s spaced-repetition training mode. It uses your performance history to schedule repertoire positions for future practice, helping you spend more time on moves you struggle with and less time repeating material you already recall reliably.
What is Smart Train?
Spaced repetition is a learning technique that revisits material over time. Instead of selecting repertoire positions at random, Smart Train tracks your performance and uses that history to decide which positions should return to your training queue.
A streamlined training experience
Chess Prep Pro separates its training tools into five dedicated modes:
- Smart Train: Uses performance-based spaced repetition to schedule practice
- Entire Repertoire: Practises all positions in your repertoire systematically
- Failed Positions: Focuses on moves you previously missed
- New Moves: Practises recently added variations
- Specific Lines: Targets variations you select
You can choose the mode that matches the purpose of each session rather than using the same queue for every kind of practice.
Key benefits
- Adaptive scheduling: Selects positions using your performance history
- Focus on weak points: Brings struggling positions back more frequently
- Focused sessions: Lets you practise material that currently needs attention
- Repeated recall: Helps move opening study from recognition toward recall
How to get started
- Open a repertoire in Chess Prep Pro.
- Select Smart Train.
- Let the app choose positions from your performance history.
- Train on a regular schedule that works for you.
Works with other Chess Prep Pro features
- Use Blind Spot Finder to identify missing preparation, then add the lines to your training.
- Import Lichess studies and practise them through the training modes.
- Download a repertoire and adapt it before training it as your own.
Available now
Smart Train is available in Chess Prep Pro for iOS and Android. Update the app to use performance-based spaced repetition with your opening repertoire.
Download Chess Prep Pro and start training:
For how the scheduling actually works, including the intervals and the ease factor, see how Smart Train decides what you practise.
Questions about Smart Train? Email ChessPrepProHelp@gmail.com.