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Like you, I am not a fan of subscriptions and neither do I like to be tied to the internet via the likes of Lichess or Chess.com. I reckon I'll just have to get used to the idiosyncracies of COW. It is buggy though. Apart from the training issues we've been discussing, another area I have problems w...

Thanks for your detailed analysis of the problem, and you have pretty much confirmed that what I experienced is how COW works. I find it annoying but there's not much to be done about it. The only other software of which I am aware, that does a similar job of training opening repertoires, is Chess P...

Since I posted this earlier in the week, Mike has tried to address it in episode 8 of the 5 a day challenge. However, his explanation does not solve my problem. In his post he says that one of two factors can cause the discrepancy between the number of positions and the number trained. Firstly, orph...

Since the recent introduction of the 5-a-day challenge I decided to make the effort to train the new positions as I add them. Then I realized I don't use the training wizard enough to understand it properly. Her is my problem: Initially I had, say, 23 positions in the DB and trained them until I got...