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Fuv

How do you learn chess using lesson on V3 of chess.com? On the previous version there was always assigned rating for particular lesson and now it's gone. I do not really want to choose lessons randomly, because then there is high probability that I solve either really easy position or one that is over my brain. How to use this stuff nowadays?

 

I wrote the suggestion to the staff , but all I got back is standard we-will-pass-your-suggestion-to-the-team crap. As far as I can see they don't really care about chess mentor anymore. It's a shame, because it's the main reason for me to pay for premium account. 

notmtwain

If it really is the main reason you paid for premium then why not use it on V2 while you can?

Fuv

Well, I use it on V2 now, but they are going to disable it in the future anyway, so it's not really a solution.

notmtwain

Well I am not sure that they are inspired by your description of their response to find a solution.

notmtwain
Fuv wrote:

How do you learn chess using lesson on V3 of chess.com? On the previous version there was always assigned rating for particular lesson and now it's gone. I do not really want to choose lessons randomly, because then there is high probability that I solve either really easy position or one that is over my brain. How to use this stuff nowadays?

 

I wrote the suggestion to the staff , but all I got back is standard we-will-pass-your-suggestion-to-the-team crap. As far as I can see they don't really care about chess mentor anymore. It's a shame, because it's the main reason for me to pay for premium account. 

Well I am not sure that they are inspired by your description of their response to your request to find a solution.

Is it possible that they have other problems that are a little higher priority?

web14

the user who has encountered a problem has higher priority .. he should be given a proper response and effort should be made to solve his problem .. if the problem cannot be solved urgently then he should be informed about whats being done in a nice manner ...

Fuv

Don't get me wrong, It might have sounded that way, but I don't have anything against chess.com staff. In fact, they are doing a great job and most of problems I issued were fixed. I know how it works, that they have bigger problems than mine and keep working on bugs with higher priority. Actually it is not even a bug, just a nuisance (pretty bad in my opinion but still).  This discussion went in the wrong direction wink.png 

I just wanted to know you guys use chessmentor on the new version. Because for me it's simply impractical. 

IpswichMatt
Fuv wrote:

I just wanted to know you guys use chessmentor on the new version. Because for me it's simply impractical. 

Agreed Fuv, they have tried to fix something that wasn't broken and they have bolloxed it up.

I don't suppose you ever found a solution to this problem?

There's something about software, where the designers feel it necessary to change things every few weeks. They don't make things better, just different. Fortunately it only seems to be software - for example, bathroom manufacturers don't radically change the design of your toilet every few weeks "oh no, you have to crap standing up now, it's the latest thing..."

nicktrap

Go to this page and bookmark it, this is a directory to the the same study plan as V2 but it is in V3.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-directory

Kingmover1

Bump

 

Does anyone else use chessmentor. It will really be a shame when the V2 site goes away.