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Originally Posted by smilingbill
Yeah I tried chess mentor once and it tilted the **** out of me. Tactics trainer is fine though
Tilting and slightly confusing. I'm going through Silman's strategy courses. Very first game is this one
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031765 Seems normal until this position:
I can't remember if I've seen this game before or not, but this looks like a standard Kh5, Bf7, Bg6, Kxh6 with mating threats or winning too much material. I had been trying to go straight for this plan. Nope. Lesson ends with Re7 in this position and black resigns. So I went to see the whole game and ChessGames shows Botvinnik repeated the above position once then went with the plan I had chosen
Anyone familiar with this game? I know sometimes there are two "correct" scores for a single game, so maybe? Or are they screwing with me? Either way it's instructive. Just slightly tilting.