what should i do next?

Hi I’m Niels and I am 14 years old, I started playing approximately one year ago. I did pretty good in tournaments last year, I rose from table 8 to table 2.

now I have summer-holydays for 6 weeks and I made it all about improving my chess. I wake up at 10:00 and all I do is reading books/watching video's etc. until I go to sleep again.

before the holidays I was tactically good but I didn't have any positional skills. my reportoire was simply to play 1.c4, counter e4 with c5, counter d4 with Nc3 and improvise my way through the game from there on using the things I learned from the video's I watched on the english, sicilian and nimzo-indian

what I did In the holydays up to now:
I read how to reassess your chess ed 4 and the how to reassess your chess workbook it helped me to become better positional player. I play tactics every day and my chesstempo standard rating is approximately 1600. I read Silman’s complete endgame course up to ‘class A player’ and I revise the hardest endgames discussed in the book.

I made a better opening repertoire as well. I watched many video's about the Sicilian (Najdorf) and the Grunfeld for black and I watched GM Roman Dzindzichashvili's video about the English for white. during the videos I wrote down all the lines I want to play and I revise those lines every day when I wake up.

All this training is to get good results next year in OTB tournaments and to play well in  the Dutch junior team championship in which I have 90 minutes in total for each game. so how do I play with lots of time?

To practice playing with more time I have played 15/10 games and I’ll play 30/0 games as well, how do you think I can get people to play 90/0 with me?

conclusion
So during this holiday I made an opening repertoire, became a better middlegame player, and I became a better endgame player. My question is, what do I do now? Do I just play the game, or do you recommend some other book to read or video to watch (I love reading chess books or watching chess videos) how will I improve the most?

I don’t think I should upgrade my chess.com account because all features exept for the videos can be found elsewere online, although I think the videos would help me a lot I just don’t want to pay for the whole thing and only use 1/9^th of it

I’m sorry If there are a lot of spelling/grammar mistakes in this post.

Carefully annotate all of your games and figure out why you are losing.

I don't want to offend you, but i was actually expecting an answer from sombody who is already past my rating level, so he/she knows what will work best.

I've always been a proponent of starting with endgames.  My thinking has always been that if you can learn what endgames you know how to convert, then you can see where in the middle-game you are able to simplify down to one of them (and when not to allow your opponent to).

Also, play, play, play and really try to understand your losses and vow not to repeat your mistakes (though you will).  This is where I got my best tactical vision -- far more than with puzzles or exercises in which you know there's something to be found.

@roi_g11
I know what stokyo exersizes are, and i will try those out, but what do you mean by blindfold/handicap?
and how do is choose the master games?
how do i choose positions for the stokyo exersizes? 

@TheGrobe
how should i improve my endgame skills? 

I found Silman's endgame course book to be an invaluable resource.  There are other good ones out there as well.  I've also heard good things about Pandolfini's

Depending on what your rating is (I speak as a player with both a USCF and FIDE rating at or around 2100), I have a recommendation for you, but it will take a lot of serious studying, not just breezing thru the book.  This often includes spending 15 to 20 minutes on a single problem (especially in the case of the latter series, which is what I'm reading now myself).

If you are Under 2000, read the 9-book series by Yusupov

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/14/artur_yusupovs_awardwinning_training_course/

If you are Over 2000, read the Grandmaster Preparation series and other middlegame books by Quality Chess, their books tend to be more advanced (NOTE - The Links don't seem to want to copy completely, so use your mouse highlight the 3 URLs below, and do CTRL-C to copy and CTRL-V to paste, as otherwise, you'll get the first book all 3 times):

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/157/grandmaster_preparation_-_calculation_(hardcover)_by_jacob_aagaard/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/155/grandmaster_preparation_-_positional_play_(hardcover)_by_jacob_aagaard/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/156/grandmaster_preparation_-_strategic_play_(hardcover)_by_jacob_aagaard/

(There are 3 more that still have yet to be published, but if you study these books the way you should, they'll be done before you reach them.  I'm on the second one, just started it, and the first one I started last fall and finished it last week, if that gives you an idea.)

In addition, the following middlegame books, which I've read the first, am reading the second, and own the third:

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/99/chess_lessons_by_vladimir_popov/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/109/the_grandmaster_battle_manual_by_vassilios_kotronias/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/141/advanced_chess_tactics_-_by_lev_psakhis/

It's the last category that I think has the most value (though king and pawn endings are really useful too).  Some of the pawnless endings are exceedingly rare (KBN vs. K for example) and others exceedingly complicated (KQ vs. KR), and while ultimately good to know, wouldn't be something I'd prioritize over learning the Lucena position for example.

I think the pawn endings are the ones that you'll encounter most and this is where I'd focus my attention.  If you can't already manage KR vs. K then we're having a different discussion altogether.

Yeah, those ones are table-stakes.

Asking anyone at the sub-master level to grasp the nuance of KQ vs. KR may send them off screaming into the night, never to touch a chess piece again though.  GMs even botch this one from time to time.

You lose all your games by missing tactics and combinations. Work on that and read Heismann's novice nook articles so you establish a simple thought process (checks, captures, threats)

Edit: you could start from here:http://www.chesscafe.com/text/real.pdf

hi everyone,

thank you for your help!! 

sorry I didn't reply earlier, I was at my nephews birthday. I made a list of things to do to improve:

1.read Pandolfini’s endgame course

2.play blindfold chess against a computer (for example fritz) gradually increasing strength over time

3.go through master games and think about what their plan is (choose games from the same master to learn their style)

4.go through your games and learn why you lost and vow not to repeat your mistakes

5.do stokyo exercises

6.read the Yusupov 9-book series, don’t just breeze thru the book but spend 15-20 minutes on each problem

7.read these books:
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/99/chess_lessons_by_vladimir_popov/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/109/the_grandmaster_battle_manual_by_vassilios_kotronias/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/products/2/141/advanced_chess_tactics_-_by_lev_psakhis/

@roi_g11

Is it really going to take me that long to master king and pawn endings?! Do you mean I have to study more than 2920 hours to master those?! (don’t forget I have all day!)
Isn’t there a book that teaches about these endings? Than I can just read that book.

@TheGrobe

I read Silman’s endgame course classes E (1000-1199) to A(1800-1999) so I guess i know how to play the basic endgames including rook+2 pawns vs rook or Phillidor position& Lucena position but also the more unknown Vancura position so I think I have some basic knowledge

@SupremeOverlord

Well I think I can take some time to ask how I should use my study-time

@Kepler-62e

I’m working on my tactics, though reading can never hurt, where can I find Heismann's novice nook articles?

Again, thank you for all your reactions!

Has anybody got tips for playing at a bigger time control?(90/0). I’ve already got somebody to play high time controls with but more people are always welcome.

Also, in this season I had 20/0 or 15/0 per game. I could manage with these low time controls because I hadn’t got a lot to think about, but right now I lost a 30/0 because hadn’t got enough time. Conclusion: do you have some tips for playing low time controls?(20/0)

Do you have any changes to my list, or is it correct?

Niels

@goi_11

I just played a game against my computer and i got to know that i can't even play a match while only making legal moves in blindfold chess... it took me about 5 moves to forget where the pieces where

you wrote: 

"I think a reasonable goal for this summer is to make sure you totally understand the basics of king and pawn vs king (opposition (near/distant/diagonal), outflanking, shouldering out, square of the pawn, etc) and then king and pawn vs king and pawn (promotion races)", I already learned that in Silmans book

haha that is exactly what i have already done before, i really think i will remember those things

sorry since we talk about holidays, how can I do to set "holidays" on chess.com. Thank you