Colle & Hippo

Repertoire trainer

The Triangle
& the Swamp

Two hundred and ten lines, from game scores, book recommendations, the opening database and the stored analysis. The Colle as White, the Hippopotamus as Black. Learn them, then let the trainer decide which position you have earned the right to forget.

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Where each line comes from. Every line carries a tag, and the tag is the claim.
game
A real game score, checked move for move against its sources.
book
A published recommendation, cited in the note.
eco
A named variation, taken verbatim from lichess-org/chess-openings (CC0).
theory
Documented theory, assembled here.
model synthetic
Written for this trainer: legal and thematic, but nobody played them and no book prints them.
Tactics are real positions from real games, filtered out of the lichess puzzle database (CC0) and each linked back to its puzzle page. Opening names come from the same CC0 data set. Piece graphics are Colin M. L. Burnett's standard set, CC BY-SA 3.0, via the lichess repository; board colours are the lichess and chess.com defaults. Legality comes from a move generator written for this app and checked against the standard perft positions, and every move of every line and puzzle here was replayed through it. It is not an engine: it knows what is legal, never what is good.
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Positions are grouped by the move you answer at. A level is cleared once 80% of its positions are solid; your level is the first one not cleared.

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