Others say...

"Enjoyable and useful"
I like this DVD.
It's entertaining and educational.
I also like the very high recording quality.
It's enjoyable.
It also has a good price.

"Impressive DVD set,"
I'm very impressed with this chess DVD series. The quality is excellent. The contents are dynamic. It's the most professionally done chess DVD ever. Very good value for your money.

"Very enjoyable"
Very enjoyable DVD. Excellent instruction on planning. Easy to understand. Obviously there are some people who can't stand the fact that women like Polgar and Shahade are better than them so they go around writing bogus bad 1 star review. This is the highest quality chess DVD on the market.

"Videos Chug and Sputter"
Dear Chess Consumer:

The review by Thal Ajoni is an honest and thoughtful criticism of this set of Chess videos. Unfortunately it caught the attention of one or two people to falsly write 5-star reviews for this product (wrongly) thinking that they were championing the name of Polgar or women in Chess (as they did with Jennifer Shahade's very good first effort). By making this mistake, the few people in question merely succeeded in supporting a bad set of videos.

The user,"Danita", wrote a review to support this video on or about Dec 8. It turns out, she is probably the same person as Ludmila, as they both used the term "Internet Stalker" in reference to some kind of smear campaign either against Polgar or Women's chess in general. Here is an example:

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This is from a review of an excellent book written by Susan polgar called Breaking Through which has excellent annotations and a good story on Kasparov cheating against Judit. In her review, Danita uses the term "Internet Stalker":

Breaking Through : How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess (Everyman Chess) (Hardcover)

Reviewer: Danita (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

"Too bad internet stalkers are allowed to write false reviews for any popular author.
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Notice also, the term "Internet Stalker" in the review written by "Ludmila" for volume 3:

Winning Chess the Easy Way with Susan Polagar Vol 3: Essential Chess Tactics and Combinations

Reviewer: Ludmila Konov (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

"...It's unfortunate that there's an internet stalker going around giving bogus reviews."

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It's "unfortunate" that I don't know how many other reviews this person wrote under pseudonymns in response to Thal Ajoni's open criticism, the original of which came out 1 week prior to Jennifer's book appearing on Amazon.

But the real 'Unfornate' problem is that Chess is difficult to learn, and the beginning videos are very boring in general. They become extremely bad when mixed with low budget film making. A lot of these videos are termed "Basement videos". Some of the older Roman videos are really bad, Edmar Mednis makes me fall asleep, but I generally try to stay awake. Danny Kopec's are pretty boring, he uses the term "Exspanation point" instead of "exclamation point" to denote a very good move. And some of the bad bishop videos are very, very bad. So there are a lot of bad videos, and I would have to characterize this set of videos as bad as well, even though the producers had deep pocket books.

And the ironic thing, re:women championing "women in Chess", is that it is not Susan Polgar who makes these videos boring, but the inclusion of Paul Truong, a man. With two people, the discussion does not skip along, it chugs and it sputters. It is very formal and very rigid. This is because there is a pause as the moves are translated from the mouth of Paul Truong, who reads: "Pawn to e4" ...

(pause)

...to the hand of Susan Polgar who then moves the piece to e4 . She then pauses again before saying...

(pause)

..."This is a good move, the pawn attacks a central square."

It would be quicker and better to omit Paul Truong, and just have Susan move the pawn to e4, while she starts explaning why this is a good move.

The Polgar videos could also become good videos if they would simply cast the spotlight on Susan and allow her some freedom in casual presentation, rather than to keep her so controlled. It's a very formal video.

Good Chess videos include but are not limited to the ones by Danny King, Andrew Martin, and Yasser Seirawan. If you are looking for videos to get your child interested, start with these three authors.

And read the review by Thal Ajoni, it's real, and will help you get started playing better chess.


"Real All Reviews"
I recommend to everyone interested to read Thal Ajoni's review before buying any of these videos. It's awesome, but these videos sure aren't!