ChessPivot

Import your repertoire, exactly as you wrote it

Your ChessBase file holds hundreds of nested variations. ChessPivot splits them, names them and files them — without you promoting a single line by hand.

  1. Export to PGNFrom ChessBase, ChessForge or Chess Position Trainer: “Save as” in PGN format. From Lichess, just paste your study address — or your username, to take them all.
  2. Drop the fileOn the Openings page, “Import a PGN”. A file, a paste, or a study: the same path.
  3. Find your workEach chapter becomes an entry, each variation a name, each commented position a note. Then you review — which no database can do.

What is preserved

  • Variations, however deep, including those born from another variation.
  • Arrows and coloured squares, which most software loses along the way.
  • Your comments, attached to the position they annotate.
  • Move assessments, whether written as a code or stuck to the move (“!?”).
  • Chapters that start from a set position, without replaying the first ten moves.
  • The master games illustrating each chapter, and the exercises, returned to the place they came from.

What your database does not do

A database program merges games into a tree, but never splits it back: a variation is not an object there — no name, no row in a list, no scheduled review. Here every line exists in its own right — and comes back to you just before you forget it.

Your repertoire is waiting

Import my repertoire

Importing is part of ChessPivot Plus, trial included. Your repertoire stays private: it is never published nor shared.

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