What is the difference in buying a chess mentor cd rom and subscribing?

I know that subscribing to Chess Mentor would be helping this site and I would like to help. However I see that Chess House (or some such site) offers 4 levels of Chess Mentor on CD Rom starting with Scholastic level and going on up.

What is the difference in the CD and the subscription material, interface, etc.?

stwils

The CD version you will have access to the lessons on the CD for an unlimited amount of time while the online Chess Mentor version has all the content from the CDs plus more instructional content added each and every month and for the online version you must make a subscription purchase. So it just depends what you are looking for. Each option has its benefits and down side.

Like I said in your other post and im gonna post here for other people to see

is that the one on chess.com looks alot nicer then the CD version. The CD version I used looked like a programs I used on windows 98. I don't know about you but its just an unpealing look.

www.chessmentor.com has a video introducing the CD version of the program (kudos to Patzer for putting it up in the other thread)

My position is, if you enjoy something, such as chess.com, then support it! otherwise, how will you know it will be around tomorrow! This site is good and can become great. As an older (45) (haha) member, i can say that a site like this would have been great to grow up with.

Subscribe. End of story.

The CD version looks like it has graphics from the 90's. The Chess.com version is much cleaner and has much more material. The CD doesn't even have all that many lessons--you have to buy more "supplementary lessons", wasting MUCH more than if you just subscribed for three years.

I couldn't care less about the ugly interface, because this program is all go and no show. The issue for me is owning a copy of the software forever, to be used at my leisure, vs. a subscription service. I'm just not in to cloudware, other than the free variety (e.g. GMail).

So, now that I've confirmed that it can be installed on Vista 64 using VMware, I'm going to buy the CD version (Chess Mentor 3 Deluxe - which comes with 15 supplimentary lessons.) If I ever manage to burn through all of its content, then I'll consider subscribing.