Chess Mentor 3 - Deluxe Edition

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Developer: Chess Mentor
OS Compatibility: PC
Media: CD-ROM
System Requirements: Win 98/ME/XP
Note: A comprehensive instructional chess course
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Since 1995, ChessMentor Deluxe has been the most prestigious and sought after chess instructional course. ChessMentor Deluxe contains ALL the material from EVERY course offered by Chess Mentor including ALL 15 of the world renowned Supplementary Courses. Containing over 2,150 challenges, the Deluxe represents thousands of hours of personalized chess instruction from the world's best players and instructors. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or master player this interactive program will tailor your learning experience to your abilities and provide an intellectually stimulating environment regardless of your level of play.

Features 2,150+ individual challenges
For all skill levels - beginner to advanced
More than 200,000 positions analyzed!
Now includes all Chess Mentor content ever created

Program Features:

Unique chess challenges by professional coaches like IM Jeremy Silman
Customized amount of help and lets you ask for different levels of hints
Highlights themes, important squares, and key pieces in the position
Gives feedback on all of your available moves, not just the correct move
Allows multiple profiles for different players to receive customized lessons
Meaures progress and scores on individual problems and overall progress

System Requirements:

Supported OS: Windows® 98, ME, XP
Processor: Pentium® III 450 MHz or AMD Duron 600 MHz
RAM: 128 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
CD-ROM drive speed: 4X
Hard Drive space: 50MB

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by AliciaS - 10 months ago
Chicago United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 76

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I'm pretty new to the game of chess and have been working with Chess Mentor 3 Deluxe and wanted to give my opinion of it. First off, I think this is a great program for learning chess for a beginner and the site claims it's helpful for up to master level. I'd been reading chess books and looking through websites trying to learn what I could and while I found both of those methods helpful neither of them teaches the game nearly as well as Chess Mentor.
The lessons are very well-structured (there's over 2000 of them) and different levels of hints are available to help if you're having problems at anytime. I like this approach because if you get stuck you can try the first hint then try solving it again and if you're still unable to you can try the next hint or the next. There's also a button which will reveal the move if all else fails.Also, if you make a wrong move the program will tell you so and tell you why it's wrong. If it's a good move but there's a better one it'll tell you that too and explain why. It also keeps track of your progress and if it notices you're having problems with anything it will make sure to go back later and drill you again in that area. What book can do that?
As for the negatives, the GUI could be worked on a bit but this program isnt about fancy graphics, it's about teaching, and it does that very well. The only other negative is the price tag, a hefty $200 for the Deluxe version (I got it as a gift so the price wasn't a consideration for me luckily) although there are other versions available at $15, $40 and $75.
All in all, it's an excellent teaching tool and I highly recommend it.

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