This is a fantastic post, and I need to go back and reread your earlier posts in the series now. Really nicely written and solid advice - you cover some of the basics of chess strategy really well here!
A word of advice from a curator - when you make a really nice post like this, please don't get a bunch of self upvotes from vote buy services for at least the first day. You take away any potential curation reward from curators by doing this and actually make it less likely that a curator will upvote / resteem / promote your post - if this post ends up taking off, the big upvotes that you paid for yourself will get the curation reward (i.e. the curation reward will go to the vote service). There are LOTS of curators who look for good content here and will upvote and promote it if they find it - but the gold mine for a curator is a quality post that does not have any significant upvotes. The first significant upvote on a post that ends up doing well is the one that gets the lion's share of the curation reward. You have a week before it pays out - if no one finds your post after a day, you still get the same return (if any) from the upvote bots. Although really in my experience they actually cost you money on average anyway (remember you don't get 100% of the payout, so an upvote would have to be 125% what you paid for it to even break even).
Cheers - Carl
Thank you @carlgnash I appreciate your kind words and insight on the bots as well. I admit I have been over-zealous with them and what you say makes a lot of sense. I will be taking your advice going forward. I think I basically understood that I just let my impatience get the best of me sometimes.
I will continue to do my best at putting out quality content daily and again really appreciate your insight here. I wish there was a super upvote or something as this is honestly the best advice I have gotten since I have been here.
Thanks again, you rock!
One question for you @carlgnash: What are your thoughts on self upvoting? It seems like maybe I should not, especially as the first vote on my posts?