Clubs / Tournaments for beginners?

Hi,

A friend of mine is quite new to chess. Are thre any clubs here that are aimed at beginners I could ask them to join t get more games against other beginners?

Does anyone run tournaments for begnners?

BVC

my chess club has rated tournaments every saturday and the level of players go from unrated to 2000+ and depending on who shows up that day there may be a couple of brackets of “higher and lower” rated players separated accordingly

there are also rated games around town for kids and these are geared for newer players (though several of the kids are 1800+) like u1000 u800 u400 etc

my coach has told me that it is the longer time control which matter most in learning,the game and if you can constantly play better players that is ideal

so i would think any chess club would suffice

if you are talking about online i would just recommend jumping in with both feet and start playing games and eventually you will find a level to start building from; the online games are only practice for the long time control tournament games anyways (at least that is what coach says)

Hi Daxy,

 

I was specifically thinking about Chess.com clubs, thanks for your into though.

 

BVC

lol my chess club is completely inactive

That is a very helpful reply after almost 2 years