Interactive practice
Chess is a practical discipline. That is why studying openings should not stop at reading a PGN, watching a video, or clicking through the moves of a variation.
All of that can help you understand a line, but it does not always become active learning. Seeing a move is not the same as finding it during a game.
The problem with passive study
Studying openings by reading files, watching videos, or going through the moves to memorize variations is very common. That method is outdated. It can help you review information and understand, but it is not optimal if you want to be able to remember the lines.
Passive study can work for strong players because of all the knowledge they already have, but that does not mean it is the best method for most players. If you only click through the moves, it is easy to feel that you know them, when in reality you only recognize them because they are in front of you.
That is where interactive practice comes in. It forces you to look at the position, make a decision, and check whether you really know the move.
Practice your own files
In Reperto, we focus heavily on having the best interactive practice possible, because the goal is not only to save your openings, but to train them. Your files have to become positions you can practice.
Random mode and filtered training
For that, we have created our own practice algorithm, with a random mode that shows the lines in different orders. That way, you do not know which variation comes next and you cannot answer by intuition from the order in which you studied the file.
Reperto also filters the training so you practice the moves you actually want to train. This makes it possible to remove multiple options on your turn during practice, without losing the explanatory variations that do make sense during study.
That difference is important: one thing is having a rich file, with explanations and alternatives, and another is having the practice session break because decisions appear that you do not want to train at that moment.
Personalized sessions and progress by opening
You can also personalize your study sessions by choosing the blocks of variations you want to practice. You do not have to train everything at once: besides focusing on a specific file, you can focus on specific variations.
With this system, each file stops being a static block and starts having a training process. You can follow the progress of each opening with these sessions and complete the progress as you want.
Best of all, Reperto stores the positions you fail so you can practice them again later. That part connects directly with our flashcards system.