danielzhang, I disagree with you. If a 13 year old is at the same level as you, that is very , very good. I am 52, and I am at your level, and I am very satisfied if playing equal with the superstrong 9 year old players. I think 13 year old players should be very happy too if they can play on your level.
As I said before. Age isnt making the big difference, but the total amount of time focused on chess does make a difference.
I'm 11 and I'm a 1276 so don't go insulting me
Don't you kids have anything better to do than sitting around playing a stale old board game?
Shouldn't you be out throwing rocks through windows, stealing candy and going for joyrides or something?
Sheesh...kids these days.
i'm more of a kid who like to juggle solve a rubik cube or play chess etc
If you put those skills toward picking locks, you could make more money than chess, juggling and rubiks put together.
Don't you kids have anything better to do than sitting around playing a stale old board game?
Shouldn't you be out throwing rocks through windows, stealing candy and going for joyrides or something?
Sheesh...kids these days.
i'm more of a kid who like to juggle solve a rubik cube or play chess etc
If you put those skills toward picking locks, you could make more money than chess, juggling and rubiks put together.
Nah, just kids... you guys used to not accomplish anything untill you were at least 16 and now you're a bunch of nerds.
larryphones, I think you are strong for a kid at 11, and a lot of adults would have been happy with a strenght like that.
Most players will some times face younger players that are stronger. In my OTB clubchampionship in Nordstrand I lost to Tigerlinnea, the under ten Norwegian Champion.
That doesnt bother me, I felt I was experiencing chess history, playing with her.
My group in the clubchampionship has players at many ages. 8,9, 10,11,18, 40, 50, 60 ,70 and it is fun to see that age doesnt make much difference. Now there are three people in a shared lead, One ten year old national team player, and to men at around 40-50 years. I at 52 am one of those with best progress, beeing chanceless in my second game in January against one of the top three, and beating an other top three the third of April.
A kid on my club is only nine, and she's already an expert, and has come very close to being a master.
I guess there is no average, but I would assume it would be around 1200-1300.
I played against a 13 year old who was at the 1700+ level.
Gary Kasparov also played a 13 year old at 1700+ level, and made a draw. That was in Reykjavik, and the kid was Magnus Carlsen. There are lot of very strong 13 year old players, but those players are talented and have spent lots of hours getting good at chess. The strongest 12 year old kid in our club have had ca 30 lessons with GM Georgiev and have played lots of tournaments. He is at Fide ca 1887. His father has 1981 Fide.
Now I am talking about the top players, players on the national team. Most 13 year old players has no Fide-rating at all.
I am 13 and I have a 1517 standard rating
@70 is that Carissa?
Ratings dont really matter. Chess is just a game.
It all depends on who you ask. Probably to get GM you need at least 2050 by the time you are 13. Average rating is probably around 1350.
I think it will be very hard for me to improve without a coach,books.All i have to improve is chess.com and i will try my best to improve with experience maybe....
Don't you kids have anything better to do than sitting around playing a stale old board game?
Shouldn't you be out throwing rocks through windows, stealing candy and going for joyrides or something?
Sheesh...kids these days.
i'm more of a kid who like to juggle solve a rubik cube or play chess etc
You share the same likings as me! and I'm quite young, only 9.
I think it will be very hard for me to improve without a coach,books.All i have to improve is chess.com and i will try my best to improve with experience maybe....
A coach will be a big help but you'd get a lot of mileage out of at least three weeks of studying My System. That's from an hour to four a day depending on your schedule. Add to that some good Endgame Strategy books, CT-Art 5.0 and CT-Art Beginner, Advanced Defense, Soviet Middlegame Technique, and Questions of Modern Chess Theory (one of the books that inspired Fischer to teach himself Russian, that should convince you to get it Quality Chess published the first English edition).
If you're good enough go for the Shipov Hedgehog volumes, they're much better than ordinary opening books since they teach a lot about strategy and isn't just a bunch of whole games with x opening with superficial commentaries at best or stops where theory ends with reams of variations with cheap copouts like "And black has equalized" or "White stands slightly better" at worst.
I think it will be very hard for me to improve without a coach,books.All i have to improve is chess.com and i will try my best to improve with experience maybe....
A coach will be a big help but you'd get a lot of mileage out of at least three weeks of studying My System. That's from an hour to four a day depending on your schedule. Add to that some good Endgame Strategy books, CT-Art 5.0 and CT-Art Beginner, Advanced Defense, Soviet Middlegame Technique, and Questions of Modern Chess Theory (one of the books that inspired Fischer to teach himself Russian, that should convince you to get it Quality Chess published the first English edition).
If you're good enough go for the Shipov Hedgehog volumes, they're much better than ordinary opening books since they teach a lot about strategy and isn't just a bunch of whole games with x opening with superficial commentaries at best or stops where theory ends with reams of variations with cheap copouts like "And black has equalized" or "White stands slightly better" at worst.
The only chess book i have ever read to this date is junior repertoire.I think i might be able to buy my system but all the other books,i think it will be hard to get.
@JMB2010
That's not right. A rating of 1350 would already be in the top fifteen percent of junior players in their state in the US. That doesn't seem average. Maybe that's average for all chessplayers?
Here is the equation for getting your ideal rating from your age:
(Age x 40) + (300 x amount of z's, j's, or v's in your last name) + (amount of hours studied x 0.5)
enjoy
Mind blowing. I got 780, but my real rating is 1900 OTB. That must mean I'm highly overrated
You are definitely overrated.