The ChIP Club: Chess Improvement Plan Club

Due to life and work, I am not able to maintain this group. As many have noticed, I have only recently returned to chess.com after an absence of over a year. There are many great players who are part of this group, and it would be ideal to have someone take over Admin duties to keep the group going and even grow the group a bit. The ideal Admin would be able to set up tournaments and recruit members from time to time. Send me a chess.com mail if you are interested. Deadline for application ...

Eric Schiller says (http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course.html?id=289), "I often refer to "the opening guidelines". By this I mean the four rules which will generally get you through the openings 1. Place a pawn or two in the center2. Castle!3. Connect your rooks4. Aim your rooks When you aren't sure what do do, think about those four goals." Evaluate your opening by these four guidelines. How are you doing? With which of the four do you struggle the most? What can you do to remembe...