How long does it take to get decent at chess?

[meccaNES]

i have an idea

Anyone who wants to play me just pick a room in yahoo

we can play a game maybe G/10 or G/15 then review it and i can possibly help you see some of your errors or try to understand why certain tactical positions exist (underprotected piece, overworked piece, decoy sacrifice etc...), make opening considerations, determine your style (defensive, natural, aggressive etc...)

Anyone down PM me or post here...

And if you want good books the first one i read was chess for dummies...made me a little better since it gives a basic understanding of the groundwork.

From there read something like "The Complete Book of Chess Strategy by Jeremy Silman...pretty good

and get Rapid Improvement for the Adult Tournament Player by some guy i forgot - this book is all tactics it's an in depth personal study course that some guy invented that just focuses on tacitcs because anything under the 2000ish level is usually just a game decided by tactics...prophylaxis and positional understanding etc is good to have and will make you better but it's mostly found correctly implimented in the higher play. if anyone's down lemme know....i'm bored and have an hour or two to kill...