It's not fair that people with basic memberships only get to play in one tournament at a time. Sometimes when I do tournament play, I get held up because one person involved in the tournament doesn't make their move. Because basic memberships only get to be in one tournament at a time, we get shut out of playing in any tournaments. The only choice is to ..........wait...... or withdraw from the tournament. And nobody wants to withdraw. So basic members should be able to do two tournaments at a time if they want to. And if you say, why don't you just upgrade your membership, well that's not an option for me right now.

Why don't you upgrade your membership? I know, I'm not well place to say that either, but it cost money to run this website.

Basic members should be allowed two tournaments because you want more than what you agreed to.  Not a compelling argument.  And why stop there?  Why not 5 or 10?  Why not access to Chess Mentor and all the features of this site. 

You pay nothing and say its only fair you be given more because you want it.  How wrong is that?

What are you talking about, I am basic member and I play in 6 tournaments.

 Do you play in them at the same time or separately?

3rd Chess.com Quick Knockouts (1601-1800)

Group #2 - eliminated

5th Chess.com Tournament (1201-1400)

Group #128 - finished all games, w8ing for next round.

2nd Chess.com Theme Tournament - Sicilian (1601-1800)

Group #15 - 2 more games in my group

6th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800)

Group #147 - playing 9 games

blaster55 1st International

finished all my games, w8ing for tour to end

Fast Players Tournament

playing 4 games.

 I don't mean like that, did you play the tournaments at the same time?Not the games the tournaments.

You can register to play in all the official chess.com tournaments if your timeout ratio is 10% or less.

 Most of those are Chess.com tourneys so you can play more at once. They don't do many though.

 Your not getting what I'm saying. Did he play those tournaments at the same time. The tournaments.

I'm currently in 2 tournaments, at the same time, you can only play 1 member arranged tournament at a time, but there is no limit to how many chess.com official tournaments you can play.

Tbh, this site does a great job and being able to play all the official chess.com tournaments while not paying is hardly bad.