September feels like the right moment to start something. The lesson series begins today — six programmes, forty-two lessons, one per week. Before Lesson 1 arrives next week, here is how to find where you are.

Chess for Tigers is not a famous book. But its central argument — know which game you are actually playing, and play that one rather than the theoretically impressive one — is one of the most useful ideas I have encountered in forty years of professional life.