Well I hope everything is going well for you now in life! I didn't mean to imply your past was ideal and am sorry if it came out that way. Thanks for the backg

Well I hope everything is going well for you now in life! I didn't mean to imply your past was ideal and am sorry if it came out that way. Thanks for the background on chess training programs. I had a friend with Houdini or some other engine maybe 10 years ago and it had a pretty extensive training mode or so I thought. It was fully 3D and could explain every move and suggest better ones...etc. Houdini is pretty expensive iirc (edit: just looked it up and it is ~$100 range), so maybe something more reasonable would satisfy a need? Also, I suppose the training mode was not as fully featured as real training software? I can't tell if this is the same "chessbase" thing you're talking about.