New Chess Mentor Format / Idea

Hey all!

With the new year (Happy 2014, by the way) -- Today we launched this course:

http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course?id=458

By GM Bryan Smith! This new format is structured to be completed in one lesson, "guessing the move" the whole way. Basically, Chess Mentor meets Solitaire Chess.

Starting this thread because I'd *LOVE* to get feedback from members (after taking the course please!!! ) and what you think?

Too hard? Too easy? You like "Guess the Move" formats because they are highly instructive (they are by the way) OR you don't like them?

Lemme know please! Always trying to make our content better!

Danny

yay cool

1st page:)

This would be cool

I like it. It gives me a easy way to study a master game with excellent commentary. Even when I get a move correct, I will want to go over the hints for other thoughts behind the move. Great learning tool. Only suggestion would be to keep future Master games under one course with each game a lesson. No big deal but would be convenient to find new ones.

One question, I will miss many insights that are given only if I make a wrong move.  Is there any way that one may understand how alternative moves were considered and rejected?

Thanks for the continuing new features.

I liked it, I thought it was very instructive. It was a nice way to a master's thought process as they play through a game.

Why do they even say it on daily puzzle? lol. As for the CM idea, I love it!

Will take the course and get back to you on this

Cool!

Its a great idea. 

31% - clearly I dont think like Magnus. 

I like the old one...

I love this format. It forces you to really think about the moves (a lot more then when replaying a master game from a book).

Certainly not too easy

I don't like this.

Pardon The Interruption

That was great. Just when I was exhausted thinking, he went easy on us until the end. The master's thinking process is very well described. Keep them coming.

I'm a huge fan of solitaire chess and so I was excited to hear that you did this. I've collected all of the earliest examples by Horowitz and have been working to expand my collection of the games which he used. I just finished playing through this Carlsen game and found it very instructive. Solitaire chess seems to fit the Chess Mentor format very well, much better than I had expected. I'm left hoping that you'll do many more of these. Searching to find this thread again after finishing, I noticed the related video series by Kaidanov. This is something that I didn't know about either and it's next on my list. Thanks!

I loved it. I downloaded a "Guess the Move" program. The problem with it was that it contained very few comments and a lot of computer annotations. It was hard to tell why a move was or wasn't good. The commentary here was excellent and it is the quality of the commentary and the comments of the incorrect moves which makes Chess Mentor the best learning resource I have seen on the internet. I hope you will make more of these in the future. You should consider Morphy games for future courses as they are very instructive and are a bit more logical for a beginning chess player compared with Carlsen.

Liked it, although it was pretty hard for me. Of course I'd like to see more of this, with games of different players, different openings, explaining standart moves in different situations. Maybe need more wrong moves commented(or I just have done too obvious mistakes)

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I really enjoyed it.

Here's why:

The explanations were clear and helped me understand what was important in the given positions.

I think combining the "guess the move" with chess mentor really works and is the perfect match because so many people suggest playing through masters' games and to cover up each move as you play through the game to guess the moves (chess solitaire) and see if you got the move right for improvement;

But the chess learner's dilemma has always been without knowing the "why" the masters made that move, it's not as instructive as it could be.

This new chess mentor course you guys launched with the new guess the move format solves that problem completely.

So now you get all the benefits of guessing the moves of the masters and you get to actually understand why they made the moves they made in the first place for even more good training for improving understanding of how to correctly think during a chess game.

Add to it the fact it was put together by a grandmaster and international master, you know you're going to learn something useful.

Big fan here. Enjoyed it.

first of all, whose idea was it to combine it ?