New Chess Mentor Format / Idea

Yeah, I'm 60% Carlsen, only 40% to go!

I liked it, just one quibble - future moves are sometimes hinted on, for instance something like "Surprise! Carlsen doesn´t play ...Rc8 as is usual, he plays ...Rb8, preparing ...b5". This was I think a free move, but you now know that ...b5 is coming soon, which makes it artificially easier for you.

Put my vote in the "good idea, nicely executed" column.  This is obviously not the first time Dragon theory, and particularly the Yugoslav Attack, has been presented.  Anyone who watches your live session videos has seen much of this at least 3 or 4 times before and IM Keirwa had a 10 video series that even included a Chinese Dragon video.  I'm not complaining, mind you, I'm just suggesting that how well you did on this course has a lot to do with whether you've seen other presentations.

Seems a nobrainer that other instructive games should be given the same treatment.  I'm sure it's a bit of a pain to come up with an original CM course but I'm equally sure every titled player has a few great games that influenced them and could be made into a course.  Looking forward to more, hundreds more...

Excellent course, and a great idea for future similar courses!

This was  bloody brilliant - I'd love to see more of this!

Looks great!  I hope this kind of tutoring will be possible when you're implementing this chess mentor to work natively on mobile devices!

More... I could see lessons involving Capablanca's creativity or Kasparov's constrictiveness.  It wasnt too easy and I found through the comments that explained that Carlsen was trying to set something up made me look into his method which helped me too try to think like a grandmaster...      I LOVED IT!!!

The "En Prise Please" course by FM Mike Klein is simply phenomenal too. Some of the most unexpected but brilliantly winning moves.

I liked the recurring theme of the bishop sacrifice in the endgame to open a path for the king to win.

Seeing the same theme in different selected games really helps you "get it" in a way where I feel I could actually learn it well enough to keep in mind for use in a future game.

Sometimes if you're only exposed to an idea once, you can think, "that's great", but without the repetition in place to reinforce the idea becomes hard to actually "learn" it (because only one exposure to it makes it hard to internalize it.)

Excellent work. 

It was good (63%!), and I also like the idea of seeing why other potential candidate moves are wrong (without having to make the moves incorrectly). Overall it was a pretty fun experience.  

Kool idea Danny....

Your result:

Score: 63%
Rating 1924 (0)

thx

I agree with you. This new feature will kill most competitors and is one I felt was missing. If you really want to end all possible competition, I would add what a strong engine such as Houdini 4 would do in each position as well. By doing this, there is no single chess-related tool on the WWW that chess.com doesn't cover, as far as I know.

The cherry on the cake would be to have as many moves explained as possible.

Other than that, I got 96%, but I couldn't continue due to a glitch.

I love it!

I did the mentor course and I liked it. It was too difficult for me off course but I learned from it en enjoyed it. One remark, could you please make the explaning sentences a little bid easier to read for none native english speakers.

I liked it, good way to learn. Carlsen got a few moves wrong compared with what I did, well OK maybe I got them wrong! I did one move the computer said was actually stronger than what Carlsen did, pretty happy with that. Finished with 63%, 1782, (+3). Thanks.

Yes, you can!

You must be using the mobile app.  On the regular windows 7/Chrome browser version there is a big green bar that says "free move, click next" for the first dozen or so questions.  So that explains why there is "no explanation whatsoever".  If you click next, there is a nice explanation as to why Carlsen chose that move.  Only the middle part of the game requires you to make a choice; the opening and endgame are taken care of for you.

It's very similar to IM Igor Khmelnitsky's courses. By the way, mine is glitched, the only option I see is the "Back" button, so I cannot continue with the exercise.

I like it lot, not hard to keep up with at all! Keep them coming, great idea 

This is a very good format.  I also agree completely with the comments and suggestions by JFK - Ramsey above.  

Excellent format, Danny!  I like the alternate move choices of which I chose 3 or 4 which also give credit.  You have carefully approached and thought through this experience.  Very good teaching tool!  I am looking forward to going through some more games.  See you at the Anatole in BIG D.  Dinner's on me.

I love it, and hope to see more!