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DrumstickChippopotamus

I know that the Chess Mentor software by Jeremy Silman was adapted into the chess.com lessons.

However, there are many different Chess Mentor courses, and they are hard to find on here since they seem to be organized randomly in the lesson library.

Is there a way to find these courses more easily?

Thanks for the help.

justbefair
DrumstickChippopotamus wrote:

I know that the Chess Mentor software by Jeremy Silman was adapted into the chess.com lessons.

However, there are many different Chess Mentor courses, and they are hard to find on here since they seem to be organized randomly in the lesson library.

Is there a way to find these courses more easily?

Thanks for the help.

https://www.chess.com/lessons/all-lessons?author=Silman The Lesson Library is searchable by author.

justbefair

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2-new-chess-mentor-courses-from-fm-eric-schiller shows another author

justbefair

A list of authors from Chess Mentor courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

DrumstickChippopotamus

Thank you, that really helps, probably covers most of them. Might be one or two missing, not sure!

Martin_Stahl

I don't think every Chess Mentor lesson made the transition to the newer lessons format.

DrumstickChippopotamus

I have them on a disc but they are no longer supported by Windows anymore.

Would be a shame to lose any of them, the courses are amazing.

Martin_Stahl

https://www.chess.com/news/view/a-new-years-resolution-improve-your-chess-with-new-lessons

  • What is happening to the old lessons (aka "Chess Mentor")? 

    Old lessons will exist as they do now until we can bring that content over to Chess.com Lessons. In many cases that will mean adding videos, or updating the content. Some old courses will eventually go away. 

Martin_Stahl

Also this: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/old-lessons-removed?page=2#comment-46817588

Martin_Stahl

I can't say some of those that were transitioned are still available though, since that was a few years ago.

DrumstickChippopotamus

Yes, it appears some of my favorite Chess Mentor courses are gone, maybe they were phased out, really a shame.