A Chess Mentor Suggestion

There may be a way to do this already, and I don't know how to do it.  However, here is my suggestion.

An analysis board to open during Chess Mentor lessons.  Right now I'm taking the opening lessons.  It's one of the beginning lessons and it's not really about openings I don't think.  However, they do tell you how you arrived at that point in the game.  There is another lesson that does this and when I took that lesson I was using my home computer so I would just pop open Sigma chess and play through the lesson up to where we are at at the lesson.  However, I was doing this last lesson on a work computer where I don't have a chess game loaded so I can't follow through.  I'm sorry but I have trouble following the games in my mind.

there is an analysis board button in Chess Mentor lessons. it's one of the 15 or so buttons below the board.

Doh!  I thought there must be.  And there it is hiding in plain sight.

Swordoflaban, there is something you need to know about openings (and so that openings course!). It is not about the moves you play in the opening, but the positions that can be reached that need to be mastered. This is the theory of the openings.

Thanks Nytik;

I know that, but I like to see how the openings take shape so that I can at least think hey I've seen that before.  Really, the lesson is called "A Pot Pourrie(?) of Openings" but it feels much more like a tactics class.

I suppose thats fair enough, you could always look up the opening on the game explorer .

Now I remember why the analysis board is not very helpful.  It starts at the position for the problem.  That's generally OK, but for the lessons that give the opening moves it is good to see from the beginning.  I don't know how many lessons do this, and I know it would be hard to make the analysis board do something different.  At least I think it would be hard.  OH well back to Chess Mentor from my home computer.