Improved Opening Training in Noctie

Hey chess fans!

Did you try the new opening trainer feature in Noctie yet? Launched earlier this year, it’s already our favourite way of learning openings.

Need help getting started? Here’s a step-by-step video tutorial.

What’s new

Opening trainer is a complete remake our old repertoires feature, designed for effective opening practice.

With opening trainer, you can:

• Quickly start a game against Noctie in any named opening
• Import your own opening book / repertoire and drill games against Noctie
• Browse pre-made, annotated opening books to learn new openings

Better practice experience

Practicing openings is now a much better experience:

• Quickly restart at any point, without resigning, to drill lines repeatedly.
• Noctie shows when a variation finishes or either player deviates. Play on or restart.
• Variations are gone through in order for full coverage.
• Switch to random selection, weighted by subvariations, for a realistic experience.

• Activate bonus moves to let Noctie go off-book and test your ability to handle surprises.
• Use bookmarks to navigate to specific lines, great for drilling a subset of a larger book.

• Opening books support comments and annotations, for a richer learning experience.
• See an overview of all continuations from any position, with comment previews for each.
• Activate multiple opening books at once to practice your full repertoire.

Better creation and organization

• Create or use opening books on mobile and tablet.

• Organize your opening books into folders and reorder them as you like.

• Use filters for easier navigation when browsing Noctie’s inbuilt opening books.
• Add thumbnails to personalize your opening books and make sharing more fun.

Try the new Opening Trainer now

Want to jump right in? Try out FM Hugo Wernberg’s Beginner’s Guide to 1. e4 or Stjepan Tomić’s (Hanging Pawns) Complete Caro-Kann Repertoire for Black.

What opening should we cover next?

Need help getting started?

We’ve made a step-by-step video tutorial.

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// Samuel & the Noctie.ai team