suggest you browse in this group's various forum topics. you will soon find answers to your questions. someone has already typed out those answers.
What's Your Plan?
I think i'll start at the begining again and builed it up. It worked a couple of years ago when i was really bad.
Look guys; what we need are diagrams of examples looking at different areas of chess strategies. Perhaps we can start with a particular Grandmaster. This club should be more practical, more user-friendly, more engaging of the members.
If I could, at present, do all the diagrams I would be doing so......give me time!
Where are all our techno whizzers?
What's your plan for improvement? What is your short and long terms goals for rating? What about areas of improvement? Opening, middlegame or endgame?