Chessable’s identity has always been based on active learning… spaced reviews, video sync, trackable progress. With the new Repertoire feature, our platform expands. Now you can personalize your training and pave your own path to Elo acquisition.

Our new repertoire allows you to add MoveTrainer variations or even entire chapters to your custom courses.

From here, things went from good to great:

Once a position or chapter is in your course, you can edit it freely…without changing the original direction.

You can:

➕ Add clickable comments and variations from your own analysis, deepening your understanding

➕ Include alternative moves not yet added in the original course

➕ Rename the row or work out to fit your own naming system

➕ Customize key movements to shorten or widen a trainable path

➕ Add visual aids for one more layer of active learning.

The original course? It remains clean and untouched. When the author sends an update, you still receive it.

Simply put, Repertoire is on point…

…giving you room to tailor training around you, your study habits, and your goals, while maintaining the quality standards you expect from published courses.

This new addition to Chessable opens up a wealth of ideas to encourage your chess improvement. Here are some of them:

Build Yours “Best of Breed” Opening Repertory.

Let’s say you like a writer’s cutting-edge attack line against the Sicilian Open. Big!

But perhaps the same author also recommended a surprising response to the rare anti-Sicilians. Since you won’t see it often, you’d rather keep it simple.

This is where Repertoire shines.

You can take other writers’ calmer and more positional answers in between. Then you combine it with the sharp main plot of the first author.

The result? A repertoire that suits the level of time and effort you are willing to put into it.

Take a “Deeper Than Within” Dive into the Chess Areas You Care About

Just like different chess pieces are connected to each other…

An opening leads to a specific structure, and that structure forms the endgame…

Different Chessable courses are also connected. They can deepen your understanding of the same topic from different angles.

Take the Indian Kings Defense for example. It’s one of the richest openings in chess.

But you can get closer to mastering it if you combine…

Chapters 14 to 18 of Chess Structure: A Grandmaster’s Guide for long term planning at KID…

…That Indian King Attack Guide for tactical weapons…

…and a guide to getting started in Mar del Plata from A Lifetime’s Repertoire: The Defense of an Indian King, Part 1where the above attacking idea appears repeatedly.

Our new Repertoire feature lets you do all of the above in a few clicks!

Change the Game Model from your Opening Repertoire to Trainable Exercise

Best Chessable writer gone outside strong opening line.

They also include model games to show you how to play the middle game and end game.

But most model games are informative, not trainable.

After learning one, you may find a key moment or two that you want to practice yourself.

Does not matter! Repertory allows you to move plays into your specific repertoire… then turn them into practiceable exercises.

Now your repertoire doesn’t just teach you how to get good positions. It teaches you what to do once you get there.

Here’s How You Use Your Repertoire

First, go to the course for which you want to select lines or exercises.

(Want to add full chapters? Starting from the main course view with a list of chapters. Just below the course title, you will see an “Add to Repertoire” button. Click that and the next step works like adding individual rows.)

To add specific lines and exercises, go to the chapter they contain.

Then click “Add to Repertory” just below the videosync player. A check box will appear on each row or exercise.

Check the ones you want.

Then click “Add to Repertory” again, now in blue.

A confirmation window will appear. Click Continue.

Next, choose which custom courses you want to add. Select the chapter where they should go.

Click “Add Variation” and you’re all set!

If you haven’t created a custom course, you can do that there too. Just click the plus sign. Name your new repertoire. And use that as the destination for the row you copied.

We Want to Hear Your Ideas

The repertoire marks a major step forward in Chessable training.

You are no longer limited to taking courses exactly as published.

Now you can shape your learning based on your goals and how you learn best.

The use case discussed here? That’s actually just the beginning.

We’re confident the Chessable community will find smarter and more creative ways to make it their own.

Please try it and let us know what you think.