Chessable’s identity always stood on active learning… spaced reviews, videosync, trackable progress. With the new Repertoire feature, our platform evolves. Now you can personalize your training and pave your own path to Elo gains.
Our brand new Repertoire lets you add a MoveTrainer variation or even entire chapters to your own custom course.
From here, things go from good to great:
Once a position or chapter is in your course, you can edit it freely… without changing the original course they came from.
You can:
➕ Add comments and clickable variations from your own analysis, deepening your understanding
➕ Include alternative moves not yet added in the original course
➕ Rename the line or exercise to match your own naming system
➕ Adjust key moves to shorten or expand the trainable line
➕ Add visual aids for one more layer of active learning.
The original course? It stays clean and untouched. When the author pushes an update, you still receive it.
Simply put, Repertoire hits that sweet spot…
…giving you room to customize your training around you, your study habits, and goals, while keeping the quality standards you expect from a published course.
This new addition to Chessable opens up plenty of ideas to fuel your chess improvement. Here are a few:
Build Your “Best of Breed” Opening Repertoire
Say you love an author’s cutting-edge attacking lines against the Open Sicilian. Great!
But maybe the same author also recommends mind-melting answers to rare anti-Sicilians. Since you won’t see them often, you’d rather keep things simpler.
Here’s where Repertoire shines.
You can take a different author’s calmer, more positional answer to those sidelines. Then you combine it with the first author’s razor-sharp main lines.
The result? A repertoire suited for the level of time and effort you want to give it.
Take “Deeper than Deep” Dives into Areas of Chess You Care About
Just as different parts of chess connect with each other…
An opening leads to certain structures, and those structures shape the endgame…
Different Chessable courses connect, too. They can deepen your understanding of the same topic from different angles.
Take the King’s Indian Defense, for example. It’s one of the richest openings in chess.
But you can get much closer to mastering it when you combine…
Chapters 14 to 18 of Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide for long-term planning in the KID…
…the King’s Indian Attacking Manual for tactical firepower…
…and the Mar del Plata quickstarter from Lifetime Repertoires: King’s Indian Defense, Part 1, where the attacking ideas above show up again and again.
Our new Repertoire feature lets you do all of the above in a few clicks!
Turn Model Games from Your Opening Repertoires into Trainable Exercises
The best Chessable authors go beyond strong opening lines.
They also include model games to show you how to play the middlegame and endgame.
But most model games are informational, not trainable.
After studying one, you may spot a key moment or two you’d like to drill yourself.
No problem! Repertoire lets you move the game to your custom repertoire… then turn it into a trainable exercise.
Now your repertoire does more than teach you how to get a good position. It teaches you what to do after you get there.
Here’s How You Use Repertoire
First, head to the course you want to pick lines or exercises from.
(Want to add a full chapter? Start from the main course view with the chapter list. Just below the course title, you’ll see the “Add to Repertoire” button. Click that and the next steps work much like adding individual lines.)
To add certain lines and exercises, open the chapter they’re in.
Then click “Add to Repertoire” just below the videosync player. Checkboxes will appear on each line or exercise.
Tick the ones you want.
Then click “Add to Repertoire” again, now in blue.
A confirmation window will appear. Click Continue.
Next, choose which custom course you want to add them to. Select the chapter where they should go.
Click “Add Variations” and you’re all set!
If you haven’t created a custom course yet, you can do that right there, too. Just click the plus sign. Name your new repertoire. And use it as the destination for the lines you’re copying.
We Want to Hear Your Ideas
Repertoire marks a big step forward in Chessable training.
You’re no longer limited to following a course exactly as it was published.
Now you can shape your study around your goals and the way you learn best.
The use cases covered here? They’re really just the beginning.
We’re sure the Chessable community will find smarter, more creative ways to make it their own.
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.