Lilit Mkrtchian (1) - How to create an opening repertoire with ChessBase for the rest of your life

🔽🔽🔽 HOW DOES A CHESS PRO PREPARE FOR A TOURNAMENT INFOS 🔽🔽🔽

Welcome to our new series with Lilit Mkrtchian - "How does a chess pro prepare for a tournament?". Very recently, the Armenian IM played quite superb tournaments at the Olympiad, and the European Women's Championship.

We wanted to ask a professional chess player, how they prepare for a tournament, so you at home can get some ideas, tricks, and inspiration for your next tournament.

We start off with one of the keys for a good prep - building an opening repertoire. Perhaps not as ChessBase intended it, but it seems to work wonderfully for Lilit!

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
1:55 - When does a professional chess player decide to play in a tournament?
3:10 - Team tournament and single tournament are very different, correct?
4:00 - Lilit prepares for a tournament in general.
6:09 - How long before the tournament begins are you starting to prepare?
7:28 - You work on your openings all the time. Can you show us what your ChessBase folders look like?
8:35 - Lilit has over 750 Gigabyte of opening files!
10:25 - How are you preparing your opening repertoire with ChessBase and the Megadatabase?
14:27 - One of the most important features in ChessBase? - The "Reference" option
16:34 - The Megagdatabase lets me find all the newest variations for my opening.
18:30 - Saving the variation (Perhaps not as ChessBase intended it, but it doesn't matter)
21:54 - Browsing the Megadatabase almost daily for new openings, seems like a nice hobby!
23:01 - I like to try many openings, so I don't get bored. That's why I am collecting so much.
23:51 - Preparing every day is like preparing for any tournament for all your life.

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[davidshosho]

One of the best chess trainers you will ever find. Lilit puts in 100% effort to make sure the student is learning all the necessary knowledge and skill to improve their level.

[michaelchristofferson]

It would be nice to see what an actual database by a top player looks like because the real problem comes not with the creation of these files, but with their multiplication. How do you manage it all when it gets to be 100s or 1000s of files and many GBs? Of course, nobody wants to show their prep, but there must be some way to illustrate this without giving away any secrets.

[chonde]

Lilit is a brilliant player and a brilliant coach!!

[MrSupernova]

Pretty cool! I need to get chessbase mega database at some point.

[henryschroer]

maybe it's me, but I find this very confusing

[guesswhatilearnedtoday]

Thank you for making this video, it was very interesting.

[pablocordero]

Thanks Lilit & Chessbase for the video ❤️

[harryh]

15:50 Mega database includes engine games? I didn't know that.

[kanivakil]

She talks like Yoda from Star Wars Empire Strikes back but with a faster playback speed.