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Hi guys, im asking if anyone wants to make the puzzles daily. do you want to: a) to discontinue b) to continue like this c) make the puzzles daily pls comment below what you think and add any suggestions have a good day! @Shadow_Knight_99

It's a great site, with lots of features. What are your favourite features, that you'd like to share with other club members here?My Faves At the Mo' are:Their tactics trainer: this thing can really hone in on what you want to practice. I'm doing endgame tactics, as a supplement to their Daily Puzzle, which I also enjoy (although now we've also a really nice puzzle section in the club as well woohooooo!). I used to use their Openings Section a lot, but I'm trying to improve on middle and end games at the moment, mostly (there's only so much time in the day, isn't there?), so I'm just in basic survival mode, still, for them, currently, with a lot of learning or even further honing, still to happen there.I love their Review tool, of course, as it helps analyse games (see Games Outpost Forum Topic, if you like games analyses), but the latest thing I've discovered that I like is the Classroom Tool, available on their Learn menu.   I found this had a slight learning curve, to know how to use it, for evaluation as well as chatting to a friend (or if you're a Diamond Membership person, more than one friend or even student), but after messing with the Expand/Contract part down the bottom, and turning the sliders on for evaluations, and showing alt lines, I found I could do different moves on the board, when going back over games, to discuss moves post-match, as they say, with someone else.The expand/contract panel, which it took me a while to discover (the likkle arrow tingy)I tried it out the first time, when someone kindly invited me to a classroom, to invite me to learn how to defend against the Fried Liver Attack, associated with the Italian Opening in particular. I think they took mercy on me after reading my first ever site Blogpost about it, and the spot of bother I'd been experiencing. Blogs are, incidentally, another huge learning resource for me, and I know at least one other club member is a blogger, and posting a lot more than I have. Their blogging tools are really easy to use, I thought, and a nice layout. Of course, the games themselves are made so easy to play, with Custom Games, rated and unrated, at one's fingertips, and opponents from all over the world keen to play you. Then there are Clubs, and we know all about them, being in one here! What are your favourite tools at the moment on the site, and do you recommend any for particular purposes, to other club members? Feel free to give your thoughts on it below.

Hi guys, im thinking of doing a ranking/awarding system. pls comment down below of what you think of this

New puzzle of the week:

So, I just received a chess book in the post today, and it's so exciting to be putting together my very first books for a small collection of chess books I can use to help me improve my chess skills. This book is only my second purchase: the first was Irving Chernev's 'Logical Chess, Move By Move, Every Move Explained'. That one is about positional chess ideas, and has lots of master games to help explain the ideas in each chapter. Ideas like The Kingside Attack, Chess masters like Capablanca explaining their ideas in another chapter, and even covers some Queen's Pawn openings. It's full of diagrams to help you keep your place in the game, and you can set up a board to go through them, online or off, if you like using a real board (can't beat it, with a cup of tea, a warm fire and biscuits!), and revisit the ideas at any time. So, I think that book not only will last me a while, making it a good purchase, but is one that I'll return to again and again, to refresh myself on the ideas in it.  The latest addition to my new chess book collection is Carston Hansen's "Back To Basics: Chess Openings", because what newbie player doesn't get confused about what opening's what, remembering lines, or transpositions, or how to defend against openings, with the right counter. This book might demystify some things for me, and again I liked the layout of the moves and graphics in it. I also came across some online versions of books which I know I would like to put on my purchase list, because I find taking my time to go through a game with a book, and a physical board just suits my style of thinking. I'm a slow player, and like learning slowly, to process information, and I'm still new to chess, so I need to see diagrams to recognise patterns on the board. I'm sure I'll buy many more, and I'm loving Lasker's "My System" so much in pdf format that I know I'm going to have to get my hands on a hard copy, for the joy of reading it in a comfy way, by the fire with the bicckies and chessboard beside me, as much as for the joy of the ideas in it. It's just so darn well written, and informative, and, well, if you're a reader at all, of any books, blogs, articles, or anything about chess, you'll get it. We love videos, but reading is a great way to learn about and enjoy chess too. What are some of your favourite chess books, or publications online, or magazines or articles, or do you prefer videos and just stick to learning from those? Different learners have different ways to learn, and all of them work, for the different types of people using them. Maybe you use a blend of techniques, as a lot of us do, and pick up different media to learn a particular thing. What are you reading, looking at, learning at the moment? What are your favourite books, mags, blogs? I'd love to know, because learning is a sharing experience, and the very first book in my new collection, a digital copy of Yusopov's "Boost Your Chess" was given to me by someone passionate about chess, and learning, and wanting to share with someone. I'm so grateful, and I think I might just pick up a hardcopy of that one some time, as it's proving to be a very good read indeed!

Would you rather... a) Have a bishop or a knight? 1) Have 2 rooks or a queen? 2) Beat Magnus or beat Hikaru twice? 3) Lose on time or blunder your queen? 4) Castle kingside or queenside? 5) Play the Italian Game or the Scotch Game? 6) Become a grandmaster for a week or gain 1000 rating points permanently? 7) Play Three‑Check Chess or Atomic Chess 8) Be the Owner of a 20‑member club or a Super Admin in a 200‑member club? 9) Get cooked by Levy or get cooked by Hikaru 10) Be friends with one GM or be known by every titled chess player but not be friends with them?

https://www.chess.com/blog/Dimitrios-M/active-and-passive-pieces-stratigical-ideas-for-piece-improvement This is a game from a very interesting blog post I found, about strategical positions in chess games. I thought people might like a place where they post some of their favourite games, and say why they like them, or what they learned from them. That way we can all learn from them, and share our ideas. What I look Out for, Currently, for my own development  I am particularly on the lookout myself at the moment for annotated games so that I can improve my board awareness and have someone explain to me what's happening on the chess board, and what's a good or bad postion. You might be working away at some similar ideas, or something completely different, or just be looking for input on your games, or analysis, or whatever. This is the place for anything game related that you want to share. Just say what you want to draw our attention to, and post the game, or part of it, or link to a post, or anything else you think might be useful, and/or entertaining to find out about. Go for it, and let's get the game on!

some people want a background and some want one thats easy to see through, so you can post your backgrounds here and vote on it

Guys n' gals, I'm terrible at Blitz (200ish elo), and find it very hard to not get timed out while choosing my usually terrible moves. However, I'm trying to improve, so I look at my games afterwards and see where I went wrong. I thought we'd all like a place where we can analyse specific time control games, like Blitz, together. So, here's one of my best Blitzes so far, in that a) I didn't get checkmated in two moves.b) I didn't get timed out for taking too long in a 3/2 Blitz game.My opponent was only a 100ish player, and I thought they did very well, considering that. I missed at some important points in the game, but hey, I'll take a win as a good thing, if I didn't fail at a) or b), above. My first of 2 missed moves was taking this bishop, which seems so obvious now, but instead I tried to line my queen up behind the bishop for taking it. Why? That's what I have to fix. Why was I thinking like that, when it was a free bishop, with no consequences? My move 19.Rxh4 was a miss as well, and the engine shows what position their best move would result in, and the whole line expands, which is something I learn a lot from, though I don't always like the look of the alt lines, just for how difficult they are for me to calculate myself. Even given the Blitz time control, I should be able to improve on this, I think, if I keep reviewing my games. If anyone sees anything else really obvious (and I haven't worked through the alt lines for this yet) do tell me, and I'd love to help you analyse your games, or discuss them, too, if you think I could be of any help in the comments below). Feel free to post Blitz games of your own, and we'll get stuck into analysing them, to improve and learn together, or if you're a whizz on tactics, this would also be the place to shine a light for others to follow! Here's the full game with Luis. Thoughts? Your Blitz games and/or analysis? Feel free to comment and share stuff.

Sorry everyone, but the roles of admin and super admin have been closed. you can become one of them when we have more members, or if you help this club grow. thanks, @Shadow_Knight_99

Hi everyone, I have made a new activity called Puzzle of the week. Basically, the name explains it all. From now on there will be a puzzle every week. Admins/super admins if I forget to add a puzzle one week you are welcome to do so.

hi guys can you pls try to join some events? thanks

Hi guys, if you have any ideas for a new profile picture pls comment cause we cant just use my one. and can i have your thoughts on this?

please join my club www.chess.com/club/minecraft-world-of-chess we are in need members to create a stable foundation, to host tournaments. I have only 20 members. Please join my club. link is above

i only have 17 members in my club and i need more members,so for anyone who hasn't joined my club,can you please join? https://www.chess.com/club/checkmate-and-chill-4/join thanks,@Claire_RL (one of your super admin)

Hi everyone, can you comment below what times are most suitible for you for events(in your local time) and pls tell me what city and country so i know the difference Thanks

thanks to whoever has joined so far😁

to people who have joined, you are welcome to suggest anything that can help our club grow