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Hey Improvers! We invite you to share your games and analysis here - whether you want to share your thoughts and insights on your play or if you want to get insight from others. 🙂

Have an interesting problem - either from your own game or from elsewhere - that you want to share? Post it here and challenge the community! Be sure to state which side is to move, and we encourage you to post the game information if you have it and consider a note about which rating level the problem may be good for.

Did you hit a rating goal? Did you finally beat that troublesome opponent? Did you manage to keep a puzzle streak going for a whole month? This is the place to tell the world about your latest achievement!

Hey Improvers! I’m NM Dane Mattson, Coach Dane. This forum is dedicated to chess improvement questions you have, either about general improvement or about specific questions you have about positions or games. I’ll be monitoring this forum along with NM Jeremy Kane and others, and we’ll do our best to help out! We also highly encourage the community to share their perspectives and thoughts - I’m sure in many cases, the community will have even better insight than we do

Hello everyone! In case you'd like to suggest a thread to be posted in the club, you are welcome to draft it and then post it in a comment below. Relevant threads will be selected and posted on a regular basis. To suggest a thread, start your comment with the title and then add the thread content. If you like a thread that is being suggested, consider upvoting it and using reactions to show your love and support. Please let's use the comments section specifically for the purpose of suggesting threads, and making sure to follow our Posting Policy when in the club. Comments that are not thread suggestions will be removed. Looking forward to your contribution!  

Post here if you're looking for training partners within a certain rating range.Let's try to keep it topical and use the thread specifically for that purpose.Wish you success in your improvement journey!  

The "Accomplishments and Celebrations" forum is a great way to celebrate and share your own chess achievements / progress. Are there other members of the Improvers Club that have supported your chess journey that you'd like to recognize / give a personal shoutout? Perhaps you have found someone else's journey particularly inspiring and would like to recognize them. This forum is intended to share our appreciation of other members/contributors in the Improvers Club.  I'll start by giving all of you who are reading this a warm shoutout! It's wonderful to see how supportive and encouraging this community is, and it's an honor supporting you along your chess journey.  

Hello everyone! We are so happy to be here for the Chess Improvement Challenge! It’s such a great chance to be part of this amazing community full of Improvers at all levels. We would love to invite you to tell us a little about yourself and your improvement goals here. We can’t wait to get to know you better and to support you on your chess journey! 😊 

Hey everyone! This forum is all about resources to help you improve. We’ll be posting content here throughout the year, and we encourage you to share resources or practices that have helped you, and we are eager to hear requests for different types of resources. If it doesn’t exist already, maybe we can publish it as part of the Improvement Challenge!

Hi everyone! We will use this forum to post updates on the Sunday Rapid tournaments, such as when the fair play review was completed, when the prizes were awarded, or any other updates we make. As always, if you have any questions or comments, we are always very interested in hearing from you!

Thread by:  @Sebu13Similar to Game Analysis but primarily focused on showcasing games rather than specific analysis. Share your best, worst, funniest, most boring, most unusual etc. games here! Whatever you feel is worth sharing, feel free to post it. Comments on the game, analysis, backstory etc. is optional, do it however you want to do it!

Thread by:  @imraghav2013 • @SPK1729 • @EnCroissantIsBrilliant See also:  Chess Openings • Chess Middlegames A place to share, ask for advice on, or learn together about chess endgames.

Do you have a favorite chess book or course that you've learned a lot from? Let us know here! I'll get us started with my favorite chess book, the Seven Deadly Chess Sins by GM Jonathan Rowson, which is a fascinating look at decision-making, mostly relevant for classical chess. My favorite endgame book is Concise Chess Endings by GM Neil McDonald, which should be helpful for most levels and time controls. For something positional, check out GM Johan Hellsten's, Every Pawn Structure Explained.  There are tons of other great books and courses out there. What do you recommend?

Thread by:  @TheLearnerofGames • @Cartoon46 • @Sebu13 • @Sans1600 See also:  Chess Middlegames • Chess Endgames A place to share, ask for advice on, or learn together about chess openings.

Thread by:  @zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz44 • @ChessBeteigeuze • @imraghav2013 A place to share OTB tournament results, chess experiences, top players tournaments, and anything else relating to OTB chess.

Suggested by:  @Valesias120 • @Eliminator_CRAK A place to discuss anything chess books related!

Thread by:  @cegalleta • @ChessBeteigeuze • @imraghav2013 Chess is a demanding game, besides that, what happens in our lives can deeply affect our chess. This is a space where all of us can share our frustrations and listen to each other without judgement, asking/sharing good advice to handle such situations.

Suggested by:  @SPK1729 • @hhart10k What are your favorite chess quotes? Share it below and a reason for why you love it then let's discuss so that we don't end up in a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

Thread by @squirtle • @southernrun • @SPK1729 • @EnCroissantIsBrilliant A place to share your chess improvement blogs!

Thread by:  @ElreyWasero Success: What is success? Success can be defined in many ways, it can be achieving a goal, an objective, getting a raise, etc. But what it really means is what you want it to mean. It's confusing, right? If we go directly to the formal meaning: "Success is about achieving personal objectives and goals, becoming what you really want to be, living life the way you want to live it, doing what you really want to do, achieving what you set out to achieve." But what does this really mean? This is just a definition of the greatness of this word. The most important thing here is what YOU decide to do with that word. What's most important here is what YOU decide to do with your life. I don't care who you are, nor do YOU ​​care who I am. Most people will treat you badly, hate you, do everything they can to destroy you. And why is this? It's because of success. Those people made bad decisions in THEIR lives, that's why they envy other people's lives. This does not mean that just thinking about success makes me successful, what we saw previously was the definition of success. How to achieve success? This question torments almost the entire world's population. Success is not an easy path; it requires discipline, love, and perseverance. It requires all your physical and mental capacity, both in small and large successes. The GREAT are not successful because they want to be, but because one day they decided to change their lives, they decided to leave bad habits, bad friendships, hatred, sadness, ego behind. They chose something they are passionate about, for example: Magnus Carlsen, the greatest chess player of all time. He is not the best because he thought about being better, but because HE IS THE BEST at what he does. He chose something he loved and turned it into his SUCCESS. Just like YOU, dear reader, YOU can be greater than you imagine, you just need to find your strengths and weaknesses, use everything you have in your favor and never against you, each person is special, UNIQUE... that is why everyone has different successes, love your work, as if it were your family, do not waste money, act as if it were time, because both do not come back. Steps to success: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, what matters is the courage to keep going, giving more each day than the last." Although each person has the ability to achieve their goals on their own, and with their own unique methods, perhaps these can help you clear your mind. 1. Write down your goals: Many people have goals or objectives, but few write them down. Having VERY defined objectives helps organize your mind and focus on achieving them. 2. Review your goals: Having your goals memorized helps you not forget them, to focus only on them, and despite the circumstances, to remember what you are fighting for, what you LOVE. 3. Develop an action plan: Outline how you're going to achieve SUCCESS. Success isn't built on its own; it requires a lot of attention. You can create a life plan, for example. The important thing is to strive for it. 4. Just do it: Keeping the above in mind, just make it happen, work hard every day (don't forget to rest). You only need YOU, NOTHING ELSE. Success is rarely shared; it depends on the person who achieves it. But, value those who helped you, and give back, because you're on the same path. Thanks for reading!!