Greetings everyone @ chess.com,

I've been meaning to join an online chess training site or enroll in online chess coaching for some time. The problem is that there's quite a few of them and I'm not too sure which I should follow. Chess.com has Chess Mentor. It seems quite good, but it's kinda pricey. Chess magnet school seems a bargain, but I'm wondering whether I would need something a bit more substaintial. (i've used the trial period) I've also noticed that IM Andrew Martin runs his own chess online training school, and google keeps showing another link

http://www.chessmasterschool.com

which is another training site.

Ahh... there's just so many. =( Anyone has any thoughts on this?

Mark

I personally use both the chess magnet school and the chess mentor here.However I have seen over 30 webistes that offer this kind of training.

Chess mentor helps with building intuition in players after awhile of using it and will actually let you glimpse into the masters thinking process in some courses.and at 100 dollers a year its really not that expensive.I have also noticed I tend to use more of the patterns that are taught here and it helps fill in some gaps in my chess knowledge that I didn't know I had compared to some other sites that didn't even teach the baic precursors to this knowledge.

Chess magnet school is for those with a cast iorn will to learn and don't mind spending several hours studying intensely to grasp a point.With the learning process of problem then lesson though I have burned the lessons it teaches into the depths of my mind to the point where I wont forget them easily even under high stress situations.This school teaches under harder strict calculation rather than just good intuition built in.Not to mention its less forgiving.

between the 2 i have enjoyed a through chess expierence and after a year worth of training under both of them loosely due to work scheduling I have seen a rating boost of about 800pts.U.S.C.F.