Once you learn the utmost of fundamentals and basics (1000+ rating is a good start), then you have enough to really begin improving
The problem is that a lot of chess content used to be presented by titled players and experts and I feel like they sometimes forget what it was actually like to first start out with chess because these players were probably at beginner-level so many years ago. This is why a lot of chess books seem more advanced (1800+ level), but there has been a trend recently (as of last 20 years maybe?) where people begin teaching more for a beginner to intermediate target audience. This is a good thing, but there is still a big gap where content helpful to beginner to intermediate chess players seems less common than advanced content (at least it still feels that way sometimes).
I feel like your main options are:
- find some YouTubers/chess players/chess authors etc. which explain things in a way you like (even if they are advanced players themselves)
- analyze your own chess games and keep learning on your own until you are more on the intermediate to advanced level yourself, so that the advanced content has more clarity for you
- find some chess friends just a few hundred points higher than you and ask them what they use to get to their rating level and maybe they themselves can offer you some advice as they are just a little higher rated, yet haven't forgotten what your rating was like
Those are my main ideas. Just don't forget that you aren't alone because every higher rated chess player was once lower rated at some point too.
I'd be remiss if I did not mention my own YouTube chess channel since I try to post for beginner to intermediate level (and occasionally advanced level too).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPXx9iOh1Q9WgwlvJVObYw
However, another great YouTube channel I like is GM Daniel Naroditsky. His videos are definitely on the advanced side (he is a GM after all), but his way of explaining things is so clear that I can still learn from his videos and probably a lot of others can too ![]()
https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielNaroditskyGM
Does anyone have any recommendations and or good youtube videos to watch for how to improve after hitting 1k elo?