Explore Your Opening Repertoire
Find and investigate the games that matter to the positions you actually play.
ChessSpider! connects your personal White and Black repertoires with your PGN game collections, making it easy to find relevant games and investigate developments in your openings.
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Focus on the Games That Matter to Your Repertoire
Your opening repertoire contains the positions and variations that are relevant to your own chess. But a PGN collection may contain thousands of games, many of which have nothing to do with the openings you play.
ChessSpider! lets you connect your repertoire to your PGN collections and find the games that contain positions from your repertoire.
You can then investigate those games, examine the variations and keep your opening preparation informed by actual games from the collection.
What ChessSpider! Does
β Your Own Repertoire
Create and maintain your own White and Black opening repertoires, based on the positions and variations you actually play.
π Find Relevant Games
Search your PGN collections for games containing positions from your repertoire, so you can focus on the games relevant to your opening preparation.
π Work With Your PGNs
Use your own PGN collections, whether they contain tournament games, master games, historical games or analysed games.
β‘ Keep Up With Developments
Add new PGN collections and see which games contain positions from your repertoire, helping you analyse developments in the openings you play.
π‘ Investigate New Ideas
Examine relevant games and variations to discover ideas, improvements and critical positions worth investigating.
π Annotated PGN Support
Work with PGN files containing comments and variations as well as standard game collections.
How ChessSpider! Works
Build Your Repertoire
Add the positions and variations that make up your personal White and Black opening repertoires.
Add a PGN Collection
Open the PGN collection you want to investigate β whether it contains recent games, tournament games or historical games.
Find Relevant Games
ChessSpider! identifies games containing positions from your repertoire.
Investigate & Prepare
Examine the resulting games and variations and use what you discover to inform your opening preparation.
Built for Players Who Take Their Openings Seriously
Tournament Players
Investigate the openings you actually play and keep your preparation informed by recent games.
Serious Club Players
Build structured White and Black repertoires and explore relevant games from your own PGN collections.
Coaches & Analysts
Search and organise PGN collections around specific opening positions for preparation, research and training.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does ChessSpider! work with PGN files?
Yes. ChessSpider! can open and search valid PGN databases, including annotated games and variations, making it easy to investigate collections of chess games.
Can I manage both White and Black repertoires?
Yes. ChessSpider! allows you to create and maintain separate opening repertoires for White, Black, or different playing styles.
Does ChessSpider! run on Windows?
Yes. ChessSpider! is a Windows desktop application designed for chess opening preparation, repertoire management, and PGN database searching.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. ChessSpider! includes a fully functional 15-day free trial with no registration and no credit card required.
How can I keep my repertoire up to date?
Add new PGN game collections and use your repertoire positions to find relevant games. You can then investigate recent games, developments and important theoretical ideas in the openings you play.
Explore Your Opening Repertoire
Try ChessSpider! free for 15 days and discover a more focused way to research the openings you actually play.
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