Frequently Asked Questions:
How do I get better? Analyze your games . Find, explain and understand your mistakes!
I'm nervous to play with a clock, what to do? Chess.com's 'bots' have varying strengths, with no clock.
What's "USCF" ? The US Chess Federation is the governing body over all tournament chess in the USA.
What opening to play? Decide based on the positions/pawn structures you're comfortable with.
This is the tip of the iceberg that is the chess world; please feel free to ask me about anything not found here as well!
Resources:
Places to play - Lichess.org and Chess.com; I prefer Lichess, but you'll get paired on both.
Community - Reddit and Twitter, as well as the ChessDojo (On Discord, Twitch & YouTube)
Good Mobile Apps - 'Analyze This' (Analysis), 'CT-Art/ChessKing' (tactic apps) & 'Chessable' (spaced repetition learning)
To Read - Jeremy Silman's books are aimed at improving amateurs in clear and concise language.
Yasser Seirawan's 'Winning Chess' series consists of books on specific topics.
Any annotated game collection (preferably annotated by the player) will be insightful and useful.
Books published by Quality Chess & New in Chess are generally quite good as well.