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AppRecs rating 5.0. Trustworthiness 81 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 24 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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About Chess Openings Wizard
The app is based on the Bookup program that first came out in 1984. The app has full editing and training power like its brethren apps on Macintosh and Windows.
Openings can be moved back and forth to the Macintosh, Windows, and Android versions.
Chess Openings Wizard does not play chess, nor does it come with a game collection. It is meant for designing openings for White and defenses for Black, and then testing the player's knowledge of the lines by playing mock games.
Sample ebooks include an opening guide (thousands of named and categorized opening positions accessible through any move order), an ECO master framework, and the White and Black repertoires of Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, and Robert Fischer. It also includes a demo ebook with excerpts from a highly annotated repertoire in the Open Game.
Chess Openings Wizard has a dedicated PocketGM server giving you full speed Stockfish analysis. (Internet connection required.)
The Pedigree ribbon shows the results of games in each opening position but uses only games between two super GMs. That way you know if the move is trusted by the best players. (And it's important to know if a move has never been played by a super GM when facing another super GM.) This is the same feature found in Chess Openings Wizard Professional for Macintosh and Windows.
The short version is: if you are designing an opening with a game database app or with a playing program, you're working too hard. Chess Openings Wizard contains 42 years of refinements, with precisely the tools that a tournament player requires to prepare openings fast.
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Reviews for Chess Openings Wizard
Akopian
Excellent Chess Prep
I have used one version or another of this program for decades now. It used to be called Bookup and was only available on the PC. This is the current iteration of that program, and it is designed to work with the PC or Mac versions of the program. One very large improvement in this regard is the ability to upload and download files from the cloud. The author has made this very easy to do, and so you can study and research your repertoire on the move, as well as have it safely backed up. The main benefit is the training features allowing you to test out and focus your training on those areas that give you the most trouble. There is one trick I advise. When training black, you need to set up the trainer to work after White's first move. This has to do with the "reset training" command not working on the first move for White when you train for Black The biggest thing about this program is that you can easily build your own repertoire rather than relying on e-books alone. You can combine, cut, do whatever you want to tailor it specifically tomyou.
Mikebeater
Byzantine UI, training mode doesn’t work as advertised
Byzantine UI, training mode doesn’t work as expected
