Nate, greetings from Brazil! Congratulations on yet another excellent article. Check out listudy.org as well. With it, you can take public or unlisted Lichess studies and train them with spaced repetition. It has some limitations, but it helps a lot.
I enjoyed reading your perspective on tactics and openings in spaced repetition. This explains the preponderance of courses on these topics within Chessable.
May 28, 2023·edited May 28, 2023Liked by Nate Solon
Nate you should really check out Chesstempo's tools for spaced repetition. Their opening trainer is far more usable for managing your own repertoire, and gives access to advanced spaced repetition settings even to free users...I don't really consider Chessable to be usable without pro features because the default settings aren't well-tuned for my brain, and I suspect almost everyone needs slightly different settings for optimal retention.
I remember reading former WWC, A.Kosteniuk, she explained that she studied 100EYMK with 100 physical cards, each one with the main diagram of the ending and in the back of the card was the solution. So she mixed them in a box and took randomly one to solve and when finished another and so on.
ChessTempo has a good opening trainer with ingrained spaced repetition. It's easy to enter your own lines ; you can update variations manually or using pgn files, and it handles transpositions automatically, so it's a good solution for people who already have their own repertoire or want to build it from scratch.
As for spaced repetition working ; I think it has its limits : I used Chessable for a couple years but just couldn't remember much : I think I was lacking the "story behind the moves" while when I learn on my own and build the lines myself, I remember much better, and I see that when I review, I recall the story and then retrieve the moves. I'm an old guy so maybe spaced repetition works better for youngsters.
Nate, greetings from Brazil! Congratulations on yet another excellent article. Check out listudy.org as well. With it, you can take public or unlisted Lichess studies and train them with spaced repetition. It has some limitations, but it helps a lot.
I enjoyed reading your perspective on tactics and openings in spaced repetition. This explains the preponderance of courses on these topics within Chessable.
Thank you and see you next time!
This is a great option too!
Nate you should really check out Chesstempo's tools for spaced repetition. Their opening trainer is far more usable for managing your own repertoire, and gives access to advanced spaced repetition settings even to free users...I don't really consider Chessable to be usable without pro features because the default settings aren't well-tuned for my brain, and I suspect almost everyone needs slightly different settings for optimal retention.
I forgot to mention Chesstempo because I don't use it, but I do know several people who use it for opening training.
I remember reading former WWC, A.Kosteniuk, she explained that she studied 100EYMK with 100 physical cards, each one with the main diagram of the ending and in the back of the card was the solution. So she mixed them in a box and took randomly one to solve and when finished another and so on.
ChessTempo has a good opening trainer with ingrained spaced repetition. It's easy to enter your own lines ; you can update variations manually or using pgn files, and it handles transpositions automatically, so it's a good solution for people who already have their own repertoire or want to build it from scratch.
As for spaced repetition working ; I think it has its limits : I used Chessable for a couple years but just couldn't remember much : I think I was lacking the "story behind the moves" while when I learn on my own and build the lines myself, I remember much better, and I see that when I review, I recall the story and then retrieve the moves. I'm an old guy so maybe spaced repetition works better for youngsters.