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Drachen-Deus

Hi, I've been using Chess Mentor quite frequently and usually I am extremely satisfied with the service, however at the moment it is a different story. I use the sequential option, and I have hit the course by IM Jeremy Silman and NM Mike Arne. I don't know if they ran out of material and wanted to extend their course so they just started repeating themselves or whether it is a glitch in the system, but the past 50 lessons I've done are all dead repeats of lessons I have already done. There is the occasional exception as shown below, but the vast majority are repeats. Here is a list of my last 20 lessons:

EOT119 King and pawn vs. King and pawn Endgames 900 100%
EOT118 King and pawn vs. King and pawn Endgames 900 100%
EOT117 King and pawn vs. King and pawn Endgames 1400 85%
EOT116 King and pawn vs. King and pawn Endgames 800 100%
EOT115 The Square of the Pawn Endgames 900 100%
EOT114 King and two disconnected passed pawns vs. King Endgames 1000 100%
EOT113 The Square of the Pawn Endgames 900 100%
EOT112 King and two disconnected passers vs. King Endgames 1300 88%
EOT111 King and pawn versus King Endgames 1000 100%
EOT110 King and two pawns versus King Endgames 1200 100%
EOT109 Basic Diagonal Opposition Endgames 1300 100%
EOT107 King and pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT106 King and tripled Rook-pawns versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT105 King and two pawns versus King Endgames 1500 100%
EOT104 King and Rook pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT103 King and Rook-pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT102 King and tripled Rook-pawns versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT101 King and Pawn versus King Endgames 1000 100%
EOT100 King and two doubled pawns versus lone King Endgames 1000 100%
EOT099 King and pawn versus King Endgames 1000 100%
EOT098 King and two doubled pawns versus lone King Endgames 1600 71%
EOT097 King and Rook-pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT096 King and Rook pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%
EOT095 King and Rook-pawn versus King and Rook-pawn Endgames 800 98%
EOT094 King and pawn versus King Endgames 900 100%

As you can see, names continually pop up again and again and again. Skipping lessons does not solve this issue, and for some reason my browser will not allow me to get into the advanced options and take this course out of my study.

Is this a glitch, and if so can it please be fixed as soon as possible? If it is not a glitch, then I apologize, and I think Silman and Arne may need a lesson themselves...in how to write a course.

erik

there are lots of similar practice ones in those courses. 

which browser are you using that doesn't let you do advanced options? what is the problem?

Patzer24

Right, I believe the authors of this course intentionally added in repeated lessons so that the student gets extra practice with the critical themes.

leightonnicholls

Yes, I have this problem too, kinda annoying going through all the lessons when you have already done them.