Hello Sad to say but not only this group but any group that I'm a member of that deals with actually trying to learn and grow from each other instead of just constent vote and team chess they become inactive very quicky. I can't tell you enough how strong the power of team work is in chess. I've seen a group of 4 Class C players (1400-1599) who couldn't afford a coach so they decided to always and I mean always go over eachother games or part of it and finish the rest later on a daily bases at least (they even recorded the game's they went over in case one couldn't make it) and everytime one of them got some type of new material (book,website,software) they alway's shared. This was a year ago and when looked at master's and other advanced player thought nothing of it since they were all average player. Guess what ALL 4 ARE NM (2200) and they alway's say thy owe there sucess by always going over eachother's game's and doing nothing more no tactics no coach very few book's JUST TEAM WORK. now that was only 4 people think of this group's potential when all 70-80 of the people in this group work together. Please everyone try to become more active I rember reading some article about why Russian and Chinese player's are so strong and both simply replied TEAMWORK and described the exact same thing the 4 people who live in my area did but with there countries support of a lot of programs being formed. Even at time's when one of them got a little farther than the rest (2000 while the other's were between  1800-1900) it only took 3 weeks for the rest to catch up. even if only say 30 or 20 or even 10 of the member's in this group get serious about this I gaurantee that all 10 or how ever many will see great improvement (50 elo at least) in 1-2 months.  So let's post are game's share a new website we discovered to play chess, start that journal thing this group had going, send eachother ebooks of a not common chessbook we found or software. I promise you if we take this chance to try and work with eachother we will improve.

Great Post! Most trainers agree that working witha a training partner or a study buddy is a Great  way to improve. Knowledge and Skill are strange beasts. It is easy to overlook the fact even much lower rated players can know things better that you know them yourself.

I agree so could me and you come up with some ideas to get this group going or anyother teamwork themed group I just know we'll improve.

Here here!

Great idea.  Four seems like an ideal number.  Four of us should post a recent game we have played, I would say no blitz games, and post it here for the others to go over.  The site is very friendly with the ability to put positions up and such.  I have a recent one of my stinkers I can put up tomorrow morning when I come home from work.

That's a great start although not in this group I have 2 other people (that's 4 put together)  that are willing to send games to one another help someone in a tournament by being a second online. We haven't gotten to the sharing of info yet but if your interested please send me a PM even if you don't have that much time to devote we can work ag=round that cause like I said about the 4 in the above they had schedules to but made sure the'd meet at least 4 time's week and sometime's but rarely less day's cause of how commited they were.