Courses to Improve Chess Game?

I am not going to call both scams, but they are not the most economical way to improve. Kasparov's masterclass I assume, yes I don't know, will give some ideas but it won't be comprehensive. Think of it like a tour guide showing you the Eiffel Tower or Great Wall, but there is more to the countries France and China than what you will get from his videos. He is using his name like Nike is using its name to sell $300 shoes. In law, you hire an attorney who charges $300/hour but if the case is not serious they hand it down to another lawyer working at the firm for $150/hour. That is what we need, relatively speaking.

The Chess University Prodigy Program has some good teachers, and I haven't signed up. I saw them do videos before. However, the target is for children and the pricing is too high.

My answer to this is when you are serious, play tournaments, find a coach nearby you can spend more time with. Then, hire a new coach. Then, a third coach. Then a fourth coach. Get as many perspectives as you can and don't gamble all your money on one program.

Everyone wants to be injected with a needle to play better, but there is no needle.

Another aspect to this is, how much chess do you NOT want to understand in order to get better? Let's say, you pay for a program or hire a coach. Your rating goes from 1500-1800 in a year and you are happy with the results. Do you actually understand why you got 300 points higher? It's like a musician who becomes better at their instrument but can't read music or know music theory.

Improve, but improve with some understanding along the way. This is why I love watching GMs talk after a game. They are not worried about "getting better", but they want to discuss the position and understand the chess more.

  2 words that I will repeat a lot so that you will understand them: Personal work

  If you want to improve in chess you must realise that that most of the work must be done from you.The success of any program is based on student's personal work anyway. 

   A coach can give you guidelines , or help you understand some things but at the end of the day , the real improvement comes from your personal work.So both Kasparov's masterclass or chess.com's prodigy program or any other training program will be a dissapointment and eventually a waste of money.

    Before you decide to buy anything be sure that you have what it takes to get better.Can you take a good book , sit on a table with a chessboard and study seriously and focused.If you can't , you better forget it because that is what you will need to improve.95% of your improvennt will be the result of your efforts to make your mind work harder and harder and pushing your self on the limits.No coach and no program can do that for you , not even the best.

    My advise is to invest an amount of money in good books (in the best books if possible) and see if you can study alone.Also play long time control games and analyse them.If that helps you improve then you can think of doing something more either that is buying a program or hiring a coach or maybe buying  more books.If it doesn't help you improve then probably no program can.That's the absolute "crash test" for any chess student.It shows how determined you are and without extreme amounts of determination, even if you are extremely talented , you better forget it.