CHESS MENTOR

Discovery Learning Software with Natural Intelligence & Learning Engine Systems

Chess Mentor is unlike any other chess product available on the market. Chess Mentor will teach you chess... it enables all levels of chess players to rapidly improve their chess skills in an efficient, effective, & enjoyable manner.

Chess Mentor isn't another chess engine. Rather, it's a revolutionary & highly interactive software product which combines the power of modern computers with expert content developed by chess Masters. The result is an amazingly effective learning method, akin to actually training with a Master. Users of Chess Mentor learn through active participation and discovery with materials authored by Masters, including IM Jeremy Silman and FM Thomas Wolski. When solving Chess Mentor's challenges, you can use as many advice and hint tools as you need, and your performance is tracked accordingly. Your good moves and your bad moves both receive comments. With Chess Mentor, your learning can be at any time of the day or night, and as long or as brief as you want. Chess Mentor even adjusts to your individual pace of learning and never forgets what you have already mastered, and where you need more review.

• Chess Mentor, ADVANCED COURSE  £49.95 + £2 post/packing      Buy Now
• Chess Mentor comes on CD for PC's, and runs in all Windows environments.

Chess Mentor: ADVANCED CHESS COURSE suitable for all HOBBY and STRONG PLAYERS

This is by far the easiest and most enjoyable way to improve at chess, in a fraction of the time it takes by any other approach. Using Chess Mentor you will be pleasantly surprised to find that, instead of hard work or drudgery, improving at chess can really happen and be a lot of fun.

How is the rapid learning possible? Isn't chess supposed to be really difficult and hard to learn? Well it was, until Chess Mentor came along. The interactive discovery process enabled by Aficionado's underlying patented Learning Engine(r) allows you to freely experiment without fear of mistakes or embarrassment. In fact in some ways, the more mistakes you make, the faster you can learn.

Move the pieces and learn Chess situations developed by master chess teachers are presented to you to solve. You have access to a multitude of graphical hints and textual advice to use at your discretion. Every legal move you try receives a hand-crafted comment: every wrong move, every almost-correct move, every correct move, and every equally correct move. You learn by working out the logic of chess situations, by actually moving the pieces, and by getting feedback about the moves you make. Why your move was incorrect, why your move was pretty good but not the best move, why your move was the best or equally good in this situation. Situations that give you lots of trouble are automatically presented to you at a later time, mingled in with new situations you haven't seen yet.

Chess Mentor - Advanced Chess Course is the closest thing to having your own private master chess coach at your side and at your beck and call. You will finally understand why certain moves should be made in certain situations, and why certain moves are wrong. You learn by trying and solving, the most natural way to learn. An unbelievable wealth of move feedback, advice and comments for all the possible chess decisions you can make, as you solve the situations presented to you. This method of active discovery combined with immediate feedback is coupled with an elegant graphical user interface. The result is a rapid and pleasurable learning experience with maximum retention. Your chess vision improves dramatically. Combinations, plans and ideas that were previously hard to see literally start to jump off the board at you.

Chess Mentor for Advanced Players includes Three Chess Courses:

• Silman's Lessons in Strategy, by IM Jeremy Silman
• Master Your Technique, by FM Thomas Wolski
• World Champions at their Best -The Lasker Years, by IM Jeremy Silman

Lessons in Strategy ...  by IM Jeremy Silman. This course contains very instructive positional challenges. Some are very long (exceeding 20 moves and one lasts 40 moves), and experts and masters (USCF or Elo ratings above 2000) will not find many of these to be easy. A novice or intermediate level player (USCF or Elo ratings below 2000) will find these challenges quite difficult, but they will learn a bit more with each attempt, all the way until they reach master or higher.

World Champions at Their Best ... by IM Jeremy Silman. Jeremy covers games of the man whose reign as World Champion lasted longer than any other: an amazing 27 years. Emanuel Lasker was a polymath; in addition to his chess, he was an accomplished mathematician and philosopher who was also a personal friend of Albert Einstein. Lasker believed that chess was a struggle, and was probably the first champion to take a psychological approach to chess. His games reflect this attitude, as he was willing to take tremendous risks, and even intentionally make inferior moves, in order to create uncomfortable positions for his opponents. Challenges include historical background of each player and match.

Master Your Technique ... by FM Thomas Wolski. This module contains 50 rich and thoroughly analyzed challenges. The majority of these challenges focus on complex middlegame positions, the art of transition from the middlegame to the ending, and on endings themselves. This module is aimed at all players from the intermediate level (about 1400) to strong masters. Experts and Masters (FIDE and USCF Ratings over 2000) will not find these challenges easy. Many of the challenges will be hard for the intermediate player, but they will learn a bit more with each attempt until they become a master of technique. The challenges feature an average length of 10 moves.