Joetheplumbers Training Journal

Hi all. I was invited to this group by farbror and thought I would join to see what you have to offer and see if this would help me become a better chess player more quickly.

I am picking up chess again as an 18 year old. I never got great but a few years ago I was actually pretty decent. I didnt know about ratings so I never had one.

Recently, to get better, i joined chess.com and have been reading a book called "How to Reassess Your Chess" by IM Jeremy Silman. Its very good but at 400 pages is going to take me a while to get through. What I like about it is that there is actual text. Ive seen chess books that promise to be instructional that are just full of diagrams and notations. Well, unless you know how to read and absorb that, its no good as they never offer a good guide at the beginning either.

So thanks for having me in this group, hopefully I can learn from all of the experianced players around me.

Nice to have you in our group, Joe!

Thanks, but beyond this, I dont really know what to post.

Neither do I joe. How about a game and we can discuss it ourselves....it would be a start.

Steven