Just to say thanks for making this such a good place to learn about and play chess. I had a few technical issues when I first joined this site a few months back but everything seems to have been fixed so thanks for the help and Merry Christmas!

Glad you're here and ... that Diamond sure looks good on you. 

diamonds are a chess-player's best friend or something. you can quote me on that, thank you, thank you

but i want royalties

Make sure to take advantage of the Chess Mentor. It's the one feature that you won't find anywhere else

Hope your membership proves profitable :)

Thanks very much, I'll check out chess mentor thanks for the tips!

Welcome! And if you are not aware of the Chess.com study plans yet (it includes a couple of Chess Mentor courses that Paul described):

http://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-directory

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I just joined as well. THANK YOU for this link. What a phenomenal resource. This should be automatically emailed to any new member.

That is a great link!

about being a premium  member, what is the best feature people enjoy?