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In my case this two ratings are very close to one another. Chess Mentor rating: moving between 2050 and 2140 Online Chess rating: moving between 2000 and 2130 How do this two ratings relate in your case?

are the best. that is all. there should be more of them. is there a "roots of positional understanding 2" coming any time soon. that would be very helpful.

I am a new diamond member (couple months). I am enjoying chess mentor, but looking for help as to the order to do the courses. I have been sorting by easiest to hardest. Is there some method to the madness of the default "sequential" order. I am confused that if you do sequential, you do harder tactics courses before easier ones?

First, I love and recommend GM Wolff's double attack tactics course - there are some real gems in there, especially between lessons 20 and 30. As I was sweating through them, I found myself wanting to write down the lesson numbers for later reference; that brings me to the second thing...It would be cool to be able to bookmark/favorite or even tag lessons you've taken for further review. Bookmarked lessons could make up a user-specific custom "course" (really just a list of lessons from various courses) that the user could access just like the normal courses. If tagging were allowed ("Checkmates," "Beauties," "Forks"), then I suppose they could form the basis for multiple custom lists (maybe a bit over the top). Anyway, just a thought - not an essential feature obviously, but I'd sure use it. :)Cheers!

Hello, I really like the idea of chess mentor. Also the curses look really interesting and a lot of other good things...just in most in the curse I don't understand more (and so never finish the curse and the others). Not easy to explain sorry (and more in english,^^) so i take an example with the curse weak color complexe. I start it, a very nice choice from IM D. Pruess, start very well so nice and really attractive positions to introduce, excellent job from him. But then as usual we fall in no explain. In paralyzing domination, ok we can see which squares are weak. But no explain why it is important to use it. The exercice finish with Rc7 and free moves, ok we go on a weak square but how is it helpful for white ? The aim of the course is to explain this, no ? if yes why no explain why it is important to lost 2 pawns (if queen take a2 and not Nf7, not important) but to be able to put a rook on c7 ? I suppose it is here the idea to understand because if not why white do all of this to put control on c7 ? Perhaps less lessons with more deep explains will be better (and so the time the player spend to build the curse is the same). I prefer just 3, the 2 lessons at the beginning to introduce the aim of the curse (as D. Pruess had done very well) and the third lessons with deep explains of the idea. Most often i find the lessons really attractive, with a player who is able to show us something but never finish the job about the explains. Alone front of a screen, I am very anthusiatic but it is not easy for low player to understand, I need a lot of explains more than lot of exercices. (well according to me). So at end of lesson 3 in the example i am disapointed and not really hurry to open the next because most of lessons the same feeling come. Thanks to have read

Could somebody tell me what to do with this:

Hi, I'm trying to get the analysis board up to get the FEN string for a puzzle in chess mentor. It's not coming up. All what it is doing is taking away from my % points.

Hi everyone, I may be wrong here but it seems to me that the green Score line, which moves to the left, lowering my score, is affected by time, as well as wrong moves etc. That is to say that if I take a long time over the moves, I get a lower score. I'd like to suggest removing the timer. Why? Sometimes I read something (eg Silman casts in bits of history about players or other titbits) that I go off and Google and then I get a lower score because I have enjoyed all aspects of the lesson and not just the problem itself. Or, having a family, the phone might ring or one of my kids might want something whilst I'm in the middle of a lesson. Any chance of considering not having the timer affect the score? Chilli

I want to see more lessons on tactics such as the greek gift, windmill, and various tactics to use such as opening traps.

This 'wishlist' is pretty dumb, because at my current rate of progress, I'll be well into my afterlife before I get halfway through the current content, but anyway... A course I think would be cool would be one based on Silman's _The Amateur's Mind_ (such a great book). Also, some short courses devoted to the games of folks like Morphy or Capablanca would be great edutainment. Cheers

I've been out for a long time on work, just back to start off. I would love to see a course detailing Bobby Fisher's games and strategy. Well it's wish....erik if we could get one we would be ever indebted...

Hi all, my chess.com rating is 1349. I started the training session in adaptive mode. Wich mode do you think is better for a player with my rating, the adaptive or the sequential?

I posted this in the general Chess Mentor Forum, but wanted to post it here as well. Are there any plans to be able to flag/bookmark specific lessons in the future. Such as "Lesson completely mastered no need to see again," "Particulatly instructive lesson I want to come back to," "Interesting lesson that I would like to be able to find in the future." etc. There could be flags of different colors representing these different aspects of our lessons and we could set a training session for certain flagged courses.

What do you think of this course? I liked it. I sometimes forget chess is about taking over key spaces.

Hello I can´t see "not completed" lesson (lesson I started but not finished) in my chessmentor list. How can I get back to a not completed lesson? Thank you very much

A slight annoyance to me has always been the course - "Endings, Openings, and a taste of the middle. This is a huge course with over two hundred problems, and I wish it was split into three different courses. Even though it is pretty basic and fundamental material, when I want to work on the endgame, I want to work on the endgame and don't want to have a bunch of opening problems pop up and vice versa. It's better in the online version than the disk version as you can more easily filter lessons. It would be great to have a filter within specific courses to only do the strategy lessons, or endgame lessons, etc.

I'm glad to see a new Endings course for Chess Mentor, I asked and I received. However, the only way I know how to access it is through the Spring newsletter. This course doesn't show up in the course list on the Chess Mentor page.