That's a good point toffe! Utilizing and combining the features chess.com has to offer. I tried something similiar in my Lesson 1 - Tactics (page 1/page 2) blog:

• Chess.com - blogs
• Links to chessopedia (if possible)
• A static diagram's
• A link to a Chess.com video (if possible)
• Puzzle diagram's

 Linking chess mentor to chess.com videos or creating videos for a small introduction on one chess mentor lesson is excellent. (or at least showing video links related to the chess mentor lessons.) It should be kept as simple as possible. Having 15 links to different author's makes it difficult to learn, since you reread many thing's etc.

@IM klippfiskkjerringa
How about linking some of these lessons to the Computer Workout?

Regarding discussion/comments !AFTER! one lesson seems good. BTW there are active groups for some of these lessons.

Common maneuvers in the middlegame

The book "Chess Middlegames" of Laslo Polgar tell some:

Attack with pawns, Activation of pieces, Weak square, Minority attack...

You could easilie make a whole lesson about each chapter of that book

I think you need to check your lessons by a strong engine, many of your examples in your old lessons are simply wrong. Thats the rason why i did stop using mentor ( it was very helpful though ). As soon as your lessons are computerproof i will join  Chess mentor again

Are the lessons computerproof now ( and if, since when )?

If there are enough lessons with checked examples i would be interested.

One lesson that might be good for a lot of players is how openings relate to one another. That studying for instance the scotch can make a player better at the siclian due to similar themes. I recall a game played maybe 6 or 7 years ago by Kortchnoi in a tournament where a 1d4 opening transposed into  essentially a ruy lopez structure. I said Black was lost around move 18 or so and was laughed at by some amateurs. Black did lose because blacks normal counterplay was totally lacking and white was essentially 3 tempi up on typical attacking ideas. 

It would be nice if Silman's ROE course was cleaned : there are many duplicate lessons, which is a bit annoying

Something on closed positions which aren't necessarily blocked. I'm thinking of 'main-line' (i.e. dxe4) caro-kanns, slavs where dxc4 gets played, philidors, scotches, king's indians, and maroczy binds with exd4, frenches with dxe4, Alekhine's and Scandanavians, maybe some hedgehogs, etc. This class of position is not something that I see get covered a lot - sometimes you see 'oh white has a space advantage, with a small plus, but black is solid'. Fine, but how do you come up with PLANS for both sides? And this kind of position arises or CAN arise out of almost every opening.

Stonewall and/or Torre openings.

Is a series of courses CHESS MENTOR
  will continue?

new courses!?!?!?!?

I would love to see some excellent courses related to the sicilian najdorf as well as complex endings for 1800+ players

Has Chess Mentor improved for lower rateds since I've been away?

They have some new courses by Alexander King which are for beginners (even the ones labelled intermediate really).

By beginners, do you mean how the pieces move? I'm slightly beyond that. I can't say I'm a beginner any more. I'm obviously not an intermediate. Just a crappy player.