Introduce Yourself and Your Goals!

Hi everyone, I'm from Belgium and I want to improve some part of my game, especially e4 openings (I'm a d4 & e6 player for the most part). So I'll hit the numbers to get t right. I want also improve my Fide rating in classical games (1h30 time) - that's not much but anyway the least. Don't hesitate to challenge me but before ask me to be in your list of in your friends. thx in advance.

N;B. ; you can challenge me In any form you want when I'm connected but for the daily's only on 960 game and maximum 3 day's play.

Hi everyone,

I'm from Belgium and I started playing chess on this site at the end of March after around 14 years without playing serious games. My goal is to reach a rating of at least 1400 in slow games before the end of the year. (1600 would be better.) At some point, I want to join a physical chess club again.

I created a  chess book curriculum for getting back into chess just over two weeks ago and I'm still going through the first book on that list, The Soviet Chess Primer by Ilya Maizelis.

I also plan to join some of the club events here, once I've figured out what time zone "9:00 AM" and "6:00 PM" refer to here.

Welcome to the club.

Welcome, Kit! That was a good list of books. I know of a blog post with a very detailed list depending on where you are in your chess journey. I highly recommend it! Unfortunately, I thought I had it bookmarked, but I cannot find it.

There are probably several lists like that.

• Just yesterday, I found the article "Our Grandmasters Recommend" on ChessMood, which recommends books for four different levels: 0-1000, 1000-1500, 1500-2000 and 2000+.
• "Best Chess Books By Rating Bracket (Including Sections Like Tactics, Attacking, Endgame, and More)" on Chessjournal dot com.
• "Recommended Chess Books by Rating" on BeginChess dot com.
• There's also Chess Books by Rating by chessbuzz from August 2009. (I don't know whether the rating brackets are Chess.com ratings or Elo ratings. Except for the lowest level, those may very well be Elo ratings.)

Since this is strictly speaking a thread for people to introduce themselves, we should perhaps continue this in a different thread.

There is a forum in this club dedicated to resources, including books.