The repertoire

The repertoire is the moves you have decided to play, not the ones you have played: yours, and the opponent’s replies you expect. There is one for each colour, White repertoire and Black repertoire, in the Preparation section of the sidebar; its page takes the place of the list and the game.

It is made of positions: two lines that reach the same position meet there. In one position you can have more than one move of yours, for example 1…c5 and 1…e5.

Your games are recognised by the profile. Without a profile the repertoire can still be written, but there are no games of yours to count and compare.

The page

On the left, Your lines: one row for each stretch of line between one branching point and the next. Your moves are in bold, the opponent’s lighter. The number on the right says how many of your games went through that line; at each branching point the most played line comes first. A click on a row takes the board to its end. At the top, the repertoire’s Moves · lines · holes; in the Black repertoire, if opponents have played a first move against you that the repertoire does not have, a line says so.

In the middle the board. Just below, the buttons to go to the start, back, forward and to the end of the line, Flip board and Share the board, with the image, the FEN and the PGN; further down the line you are in: a click on a move goes back there. Forward follows the repertoire, and where it ends your games; the end of the line follows the repertoire only. You can move on the board, but moving only explores: nothing goes into the repertoire until you add it.

On the right, at the top, Your move or Their replies, depending on who is to move, and after which moves. Below, your games from this position: for every move played from there Games and Won / Drawn / Lost, and whether it is In the repertoire or you can add it. Hovering over it, the board shows the move; a click plays it.

The legend

The ⓘ button beside Your lines opens the Legend. At the end of a row of the tree:

• hole, in orange: the line ends with a move of theirs in the repertoire without a reply of yours. Below the row, You played here: says what you replied in your games: the candidates to close it.
• ↪: the line goes on elsewhere in the tree, the same position by another move order. The pointer says where.
• +N: moves of theirs that the repertoire does not have, played against you along this line, at every point where it is their turn, not only at the end. On the row 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, if opponents have played 2…d6 against you in three games and 3…a6 in one, the row has +2, and the pointer says “2…d6 ×3, 3…a6”.
• The number on the right: your games that went through this line, those of the filter on the right.
• Dashed: a move not yet in your repertoire, suggested from your games or played on the board.

Which games count

At the top of the right-hand column, Your games, how many there are, and a sentence that says which are counted: Over the board and online, Over the board or Online, and All time, This year, the Last 2, 3 or 5 years, or Choose the years…. A click on a part of the sentence changes it; ⓧ Remove the filter. Years are counted from the current year, and when you choose years a game without a date stays out.

The filter changes the numbers, the +N, the suggestions and the games below, never the moves of the repertoire. The order of the lines stays as it is too, because it counts all your games with that colour: changing the filter, the lines do not move. Each colour keeps its own filter.

Adding

• Add, in the right-hand column, beside a move: the line up to here and that move go in.
• A move played on the board outside the repertoire appears dashed in the tree, with “on the board, not in the repertoire” and Add. Under the board you read This position is not in your repertoire: you left it with …, and Add the line adds it. On a suggested line, the text says from which move it is suggested.

A move always goes in together with the line that leads to it. There is nothing to save: every change is already in the archive.

A repertoire kept elsewhere, or a study saved as a file, goes in with Import into the repertoire…, with a right click on the repertoire in the sidebar: every move of the file’s games, main line and variations, without the comments. The report says how many moves were added, and how many games were left out because they start from a set-up position or could not be read. A file with more than 1,000 games is not a repertoire: it should be imported as games. Online studies can also be sent to the repertoire from the import window: see Importing games.

Removing

Only in the tree: hover over a row and press ✕, which removes the row and what follows; or right click on any move → Remove from …. What goes is what could be reached only from there: a position also reached by another line stays.

If the moves that follow go too, the app asks first, Remove from your repertoire?, and says how many there are. It cannot be undone.

With a right click on a move there is also Go to …, which takes the board there.

Suggesting from your games

So as not to start from scratch, Suggest from my games… (at the top of the tree, or with a right click on the repertoire in the sidebar) looks at your games in the filter and suggests the moves that recur:

• Played at least N times: a move, yours or the opponent’s, goes in if at least that many of your games played it (2 at first);
• Up to move N: how far to go (6 at first).

As you change the numbers, the window says how many new moves it would suggest: New — your moves: · their replies:. After a move below the threshold it goes no further, and an opponent’s reply without a move of yours after it becomes a hole. Suggest puts them in place of the suggestions there were.

Suggestions appear dashed in the tree and are not yet in the repertoire: + adds a row, ✕ discards it, and with a right click on a move Add up to … or Discard from …. At the top, how many there are and by which rule, Add all and Discard all. Suggestions are not saved: when you quit the app they disappear.

If your games are not enough to suggest anything, the window says why: the profile to fill in, no games of yours with that colour, or none in the filter.

With the keyboard

→ goes forward following the repertoire and then the suggestions; where the tree has nothing, the moves of your games, the most played first. ← goes back. Where there is more than one road, Continue with… opens: ↑ ↓ choose, → plays, ← closes.

Your games against the repertoire

At the top of the tree, Lines and Games. Games puts Against the repertoire in place of the lines: your games in the filter with that colour, the most recent first, divided by where they left the repertoire.

• Your deviations: you played a move different from the repertoire’s.
• Holes: no move of yours: they played a reply the repertoire foresees, after which there is no move of yours.
• Their moves not foreseen: they played a reply the repertoire does not foresee.
• Past the end of a line: the line ended with your move, and the game went on.
• Inside the repertoire: the game ended without leaving the repertoire.

Each game gives the move with which it left and what the repertoire foresaw, for example “12.Nf3 — the repertoire: 12.c3”. Games added since the last import have the New mark. A click takes the board to the move with which the game left; right click → Open the game. Games started from a set-up position are not there.

The repertoire in your games

In the moves of a game of yours, in the editor and under the board of the main window:

• ▪ after each of your moves that is in the repertoire;
• ⑂ on the move where the game left it: red for a deviation of yours, orange for a hole, grey for a move of theirs not foreseen. Above the moves, the same line as in the Against the repertoire list says how. Open in the repertoire opens the repertoire on that move, from where you can add the line; Ignore hides the line for that game, while it stays open.

A game that only went past the end of your line has neither ⑂ nor line: that is how lines end.

The explorer too, with Me as White or Me as Black, marks the repertoire’s moves with ▪. If you do not want them, in Settings › Appearance, in the Move notation section, turn off Show repertoire signs in the notation of your games: the ▪, the ⑂ and the line disappear, in the games and in the explorer. The repertoire page shows them anyway, and so does the You reply column in an opponent’s dossier.

After an import the report says whether any of your new games left the repertoire: Show in the repertoire takes you to see it.

Exporting, printing and emptying

Right click on White repertoire or Black repertoire, in the sidebar:

• Suggest from my games…, Import into the repertoire… and Import from lichess…, which opens the import window on online studies;
• Export… saves a PGN file with a single game: the most played line as the main line, the others as variations, without the suggestions;
• Print… puts it on paper or in a PDF, as the tree shows it: see Printing and PDF;
• Empty the repertoire… removes all the moves of that colour. The app asks first and says how many there are: it cannot be undone, and if you want to be able to go back, first make a backup of the archive.

The repertoire is in the archive, and stays even after Delete all games.

Free and Pro

The repertoire belongs entirely to Pro: the page, the suggestions, the import, printing, the signs in the games and in the explorer. Without Pro the two rows of the sidebar carry the PRO mark, and a click opens the Terza Torre Pro window. A repertoire you have written stays in the archive even without Pro.