Take your time an think ahead,sacrifice an do not deviate from your grand plan: )

The best recommendation I can give you is a combination of efforts.  One play, play, play.  If the turn-based system is too slow, go over to the live system and play.  The second part is use the tools on the site. The tactics trainer and mentoring system are particularly good.  Both will get your mind thinking about the game again.

The chess.com community is stronger than say yahoo.  The players here are actually trying to improve. They aren't the strongest group of players on the net, but they are trying more than any other large group I have seen.