How to create an opening database?

ilariON579

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no i was wrong, use https://www.openingtree.com/

bloopy1

https://www.openingtree.com/

jagdip

As far as I can tell most pro level players use the PC version of Chessbase for their opening preparation.. It is very expensive though.

There seems to be a free online version here which might be good enough for most of us:

https://mymoves.chessbase.com/en

I have not tried it myself.

Other PC chess database software might do the job too. Search for Hiarcs and SCID vs PC.

Writing your own software from scratch would be a big job. Might be good for learning a programming language, but it will be a long time before you are ready to do your opening prep! And you might well spend as much time maintaining your software as using it, even going forward.

If you do want to try it.... SCID is an open source project in C++ I believe, and there is an open source project called Pychess. Probably one of those would be a useful starting point. Here is the info on pychess project...

https://pychess.github.io/community/

As far as I can tell most pro level players use the PC version of Chessbase for their opening preparation.. It is very expensive though. There seems to be a free online version here which might be good enough for most of us: https://mymoves.chessbase.com/en I have not tried it myself. Other PC chess database software might do the job too. Search for Hiarcs and SCID vs PC. Writing your own software from scratch would be a big job. Might be good for learning a programming language, but it will be a long time before you are ready to do your opening prep! And you might well spend as much time maintaining your software as using it, even going forward. If you do want to try it.... SCID is an open source project in C++ I believe, and there is an open source project called Pychess. Probably one of those would be a useful starting point. Here is the info on pychess project... https://pychess.github.io/community/

Dragon-Emperor

openingtree.com is the site for openings of any player

RamblinDave

That said, I'm not sure how good a use of time this is at your level or mine. For my part, I stick to a few Lichess studies with a couple of main lines each, with annotations to make sure I understand the basic ideas. I'm not a GM or a Super GM, and there's a lot of stuff that I'd rather be doing than memorizing opening theory!

Chess Tempo will let you create an opening repertoire and then used spaced repetition learning on it to learn it. The interface is pretty reasonable and you can import stuff (Lichess studies etc) using pgn if you want to. I think Chessable has a lot of this sort of stuff, too? That said, I'm not sure how good a use of time this is at your level or mine. For my part, I stick to a few Lichess studies with a couple of main lines each, with annotations to make sure I understand the basic ideas. I'm not a GM or a Super GM, and there's a lot of stuff that I'd rather be doing than memorizing opening theory!

frankv53 edited

Thanks for the openingtree suggestion @bloopy1 and @ilariON579!

@Markov1922, You may want to also check out http://openings.chessbase.com/

Lichess (and OpeningTree) are great for analysis, but they don't have one critical feature that Chessbase has, which is drilling for memorization. Chessbase is a fremium service so some of the features are behind a paywall, but if you're a beginner it shouldn't affect you much at all. The free version lets you choose easy/club levels of opening repertoires that you can drill for white and black using spaced repetition. The livebook is behind a paywall, but that's basically what Lichess Opening Explorer is anyway.

Personally, I use Fritz to practice openings. Fritz is locally installed software that ties into Chessbase, but also has a lot of useful training tools. It's not free though.

Thanks for the openingtree suggestion @bloopy1 and @ilariON579! @Markov1922, You may want to also check out http://openings.chessbase.com/ Lichess (and OpeningTree) are great for analysis, but they don't have one critical feature that Chessbase has, which is drilling for memorization. Chessbase is a fremium service so some of the features are behind a paywall, but if you're a beginner it shouldn't affect you much at all. The free version lets you choose easy/club levels of opening repertoires that you can drill for white and black using spaced repetition. The livebook is behind a paywall, but that's basically what Lichess Opening Explorer is anyway. Personally, I use Fritz to practice openings. Fritz is locally installed software that ties into Chessbase, but also has a lot of useful training tools. It's not free though.

jagdip edited

OpeningTree.com shows you the variation tree for a player’s online games. i.e. It can show you what moves you played.

That is very useful, but you can’t use it to record what lines you intend to play i future, or to record your thoughts on lines you have examined which didn’t appear on the board That is what people use databases for.

Btw I agree with @RamblinDave that such things are not necessarily a great use of time for average players. I have never bothered with it myself!

OpeningTree.com shows you the variation tree for a player’s online games. i.e. It can show you what moves you played. That is very useful, but you can’t use it to record what lines you intend to play i future, or to record your thoughts on lines you have examined which didn’t appear on the board That is what people use databases for. Btw I agree with @RamblinDave that such things are not necessarily a great use of time for average players. I have never bothered with it myself!

nchebykin

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Chesstempo is quite good, doubling that

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