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If anyone reading this is looking to find a group to practice with, 'meetup.com' has lots of chess club listings. Participation in tournaments is not required, often they will also have 'casual' meetings, to help new players get used to playing chess with a clock and writing down the moves.

Also, the book 'Average is Over' covers a lot of interesting angles on tournament chess, computer Chess AI, and 'freestyle' chess which involves teams of humans and computers competing...(pretty different from human only chess). No matter that it happens to be a book on economic trends.