Until now, when you studied a Chessable course, you could only train the main variations the author selected. The extra clickable lines mentioned in the written commentary, the “what if they play this instead?” moves, were there to read, but you couldn’t drill them.
We just changed that.
You can now take any subvariation from a course you own and turn it into a trainable variation in your own repertoire. If an author mentions an interesting sideline, an alternative approach, or a tricky move order you want to get under your fingers, you can now do exactly that.
How to do it
It only takes a few clicks:
- Open any course you own
- Find a sub variation you want to turn into a trainable
- Right-click on it
- Select “Add to Repertoire (up to this move)”
- Choose which repertoire and chapter to add it to
- Click “Add variation”
That’s it. The variation will now appear in your chosen repertoire, ready to train just like any other line.
Find the sub-variation you’d like to turn into a trainable variation

Select “Add to Repertoire (up to this move)”

Select which repertoire the trainable variation should be added to.
Every line is now yours to train.
Authors pack their commentary with ideas, alternatives, and warnings – lines that are genuinely worth knowing. Now you can actually learn them.