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  •  02-20-2007, 11:34

    How do you use CPT?

    I've been using CPT only for a couple of weeks now.  I find it a very useful program.  I'm looking forward to the next release because, although I've come to accept the limitations of sub-repertoires, I don't like them :)

    I play a lot of blitz chess on FICS.  I use BabasChess, which allows me to journal all my games in one PGN file.  I can then go over them later, finding novelties, with CPT.  When I find novelties that I've played, I discard them.  I do this because usually what I play as a novelty is unsound :).  When I find a novelty my opponent plays, I analyze it with crafty and try to find a reasonable answer which I then learn as a line for next time. 

    I try to weed out any options in moves that I would make so that I only have one move to learn for a given position.  This makes it easier to learn more positions, and they don't all look the same.

    I've divided my sub-repertoires into several of my favorite opening lines, but I still have a few catch-all sub-reps, black and white, where I put openings that opponents have played, but that are not that common.  When I go through my sub-repertoires, it is like playing all the openings I've faced on the internet and answering them with the best move.

    I think this use of CPT is pretty effective.  It has probably added 20-30 points on my rating in the last couple of weeks using it, as I'm not losing in the opening as quickly anymore.  But this is where I get back to my title.  How do you use CPT?


     

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