In part 1, I stopped a couple events after my first major tournament: https://www.chess.com/blog/PawnTsunami/how-to-improve-at-chess-part-1
That portion covered things in chronological fashion, but like most things in life, improvement in chess ...
The Beginning
Like many people, I learned how to play chess from my parents at a young age. I was probably 6 or 7 when my father taught me how the pieces move and I would have nightly games with my mother and father. My parents enjoyed the game...
The Chess.com blog recently posted an article on the "Top 10 Books Every Chess Player Should Read" (https://www.chess.com/article/view/top-10-chess-books) and the article is marked as "for beginners". Many of the books on the list are quite good;...