Chess Position Trainer was 2004 originally developed for personal use before it was shared with the chess community. In particular chess coaches are using and recommending Chess Position Trainer frequently, but also all other types of players from ambitious club players to one of the current top 10 players in the world. Developing this software is one of the best experiences in my life. Your appreciation is the best reward for me - thanks for letting me and others know!
"I have been recommending Chess Position Trainer to students for several years now as part of a multi-pronged approach to learning openings. It is of important to understand the ideas and general strategy, but beyond that a player needs to know and remember their repertoire choices. This is where Chess Position Trainer comes in, you can put your repertoire into the program and then drill the various lines until you know them off by heart. This is especially valuable in these days of computer assisted opening preparation and deep theory, in which the requirement to know your lines thoroughly has increased."
GM Nigel Davies
"I'm recommending it to all my students. It's the best program for openings."
FM Eric Peterson
"If you have the opportunity check the program out, it is hard to find someone who is not an ardent supporter of CPT specially, if you're an opening geek like me."
FM Charles Galofre
"...this is almost exactly what I had wanted to see in a chess program for a long time! It is a thing of the future, for sure."
IM Jovan Petronic - Advisor / Computer & Internet Chess, FIDE Senior Trainer
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An international project: In March 2004 the project "Chess Position Trainer" was born. Originally the motivation was to implement for the first time the time-proven flash-card concept for a chess training program. This idea was sent from Stefan Renzewitz to the market leader at that time. Fortunately he got a reply very late. After a short market analysis Stefan Renzewitz decided to develop a chess software on it’s own. In order to not start from the scratch he looked for a royalty free component which would represent a chessboard as well as verify move rules. Not much later he found such a component: Cafechess by Gregory Prentice from Seattle (USA). It turned-out that getting to know Gregory was the best thing which could happen. While he concentrated on essential functionalities like the chessboard, PGN parsing and chess engine support, Stefan could focus on conceptualization and implementation of the flash-card concept. Thus on June 13th 2004 there was already the first version of Chess Position Trainer available.
Stefan Renzewitz, Cologne (Germany)
Gregory Prentice, Seattle (USA)
Chess Position Trainer 5 Pro
Specialized chess software for openings and tabiyas (endgame, middle-game and key positions). Standing out by its innovative training concept and powerful repertoire management.
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