Flawed Lesson

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kneehigh2006

I have noticed flaws in some of the Chess Mentor lessons. I am not an expert player so I may be wrong, but I was wondering if there was a way to suggest changes to the lesson. Could anybody help me out?

kneehigh2006

Well for example in the lesson I just completed was lesson 30 of Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Forks. The conclusion to the lesson is that you fork the black king and a rook with your pawn, and in the end you trade a rook for a pawn. However, if you make the moves in a different order you can still trade a rook for a pawn or you can fork the king and queen with a knight. I made the moves in this order and was told I was incorrect.

This is how I would have played it, and black ends up a with nine points of material more than white. However, the actual lesson goes like this:
So in my opinion, while the outcome of the lesson is advantageous for black, there is another outcome that is dismissed as incorrect but is far more advantageous. I want to be able to show this to someone who can change it, but I might be missing something here.



Alexander_Donchenko

In the first diagram white has 3.Rxe4! and material is even while in the second the e3 pawn still blocks the e-file.

kneehigh2006

Okay thanks, so I did miss something. Silly me.