If you're looking to take chess more seriously then first stop wpuld be to check out Dan Heisman's "Novice Nook" blogs on ChessCafe.com . He gives some good tips for beginners getting started and what to study, how to improve.

Basically your total noob training should comprise of a few things imo.

1. Play some games, practice makes perfect. These should be long games so you can actually think about what you're doing I'd say 30 mins each or more. Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a good place to start as it's free and has competition of all levels.

2. Study endgames. This will give you your most fundemental understanding of what each piece actualy does and help your board vision.

3. Study tactics. Chess Tactics Server That's a pretty good server to do some basic tactics puzzles on. 90% of chess is tactics especially at low level.

4. Once you feel comfortable with tactics and have played some games and feel you're getting somewhere, choose and learn a very small set of easy basic openings. Stick to these and only these until very comfortable in them. i recomend just playing e5 vs e4, d5 vs d4 and opening e4 yourself, playing something basic from there.

Chess is a bitch though because it's time consuming sometimes, so don't neglect pokars too much imo.

Lemme know when you're ready to play for rollz.

No poker for me today as we've got a chess league match tonight and I really need to brush up since I've barely played in the last week.

Be back on the grind tomorrow.