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5.2.2.4 Photo Reading
This mode is new in CPT 4. It’s following another theory for learning new items. If you select this mode CPT
will show you randomly positions of your opening for a short moment before it shows you the correct candidate
move. The idea is to make the moves sticky in your mind in a rather unconsciously way. You are not really supposed to consciously understand the position. One drawback is of course that program has no chance to focus
on your weaknesses for obvious reasons, because there is no physical interaction and thus the training scores of
your positions are not updated! It works rather like a slide-show so to say.

5.3 Start Training
After you have selected an opening from the dropdown list you can start a training session by clicking on the
Start button in the ribbon.
Before you start training the selected opening you might be asked to recall positions which are scheduled for
today. This is the key to the whole training approach. If you don’t repeat learned positions timely you will forget
them and eventually waste time, because you have to re-learn them.
When the training starts a new window is shown to provide you additional information during the training session: