NOTE: Lichess Database, set from 1600-2200 might be more 'realistic' for actual everyday human players that arent' masters.
This gives you pretty accurate Percent probability of meeting each variation in a tournament setting This is the foundation for finding out what is being played currently, and for finding your responses and creating your trees to every current branch.įritz with high level opening book for tree with percentages I found TreeDBNotes Pro is absolutely incredible, and nothing even touches it.Ĭhessbase with the Big or Mega Database (Big is fine) This has to be written down and recorded so you can remember, and dozens of word files don't work well, and a hundred or so Chessbase games in a database still can be hard to deal with. A few things we need to build this thing out. I call it the opening rig you kind of built out one time, then have forever. I like to build things, so you start by building your kit, then using it to build the repertoire.įirst, we start with our kit to get us started. And to answer your question, yes this is how I had (Am having, years left to finish) fun building out my repertoire. Here is what I do SenoirPatzer, I think it's pretty effective and it's a combination of what several books on 'how' to create a repertoire recommend.