The best session starts with a narrow scope: one opening, one color, or a branch you recently missed. If you train the whole repertoire every time, you get an overall score but few precise hints.
Play the moves without looking at the solution too fast. When you miss, note whether the mistake comes from simply forgetting, a misunderstood idea or a confused move order. These three problems are not fixed the same way.
- 1 Session progress, correct and missed moves.
- 2 The line being drilled. The position note only opens after a miss.
- 3 Hint and solution stay within reach without getting in the way.
- 4 Session mode: complete, random, progressive or weak moves.
Run a short session
- Pick a single family of lines.
- Start training and play at normal speed.
- Replay the most important mistakes right away.
- Stop before fatigue, even if not everything is perfect.
A well-targeted ten-minute session beats a long review where you end up clicking mechanically.
Use your mistakes
A recurring mistake is valuable information. If you always forget the same move, add a cue: opponent’s threat, key square, piece to develop, transition to the middlegame. If you mix up two move orders, simplify the branch until the logic becomes obvious again.
The “Review weak moves” button in the Today’s focus band (figure 2) starts a session on the moves you miss most.
- 1 Your weak move count and today’s quest progress.
- 2 A session focused on weak moves across all your repertoires.
When a move seems impossible to remember, open the analysis or the matching position. Often the problem is not memory: the move simply doesn’t make strategic sense to you yet.
Build a routine
To improve without overload, rotate three kinds of sessions: a quick review of known lines, targeted work on mistakes, then exploring new lines. The rotation keeps training alive and stops the repertoire from becoming a homework list.