Young chess players

I'm 13 years old with a fairly good rating for my age. I was just asking for some opinion on young chess players. Do you think that young chess players should have more learning skills available on chess.com? I mean I just started taking chess seriously since just this year. My rating went from 500 to 1000 In about 3.5 months, I feel maybe there should be some more tools that I can use. It's not like I can afford to pay $15 for a platinum membership, I'm only 13. I do think If more young chess players play this game the popular it will get. I mean who's the one that's going to be teaching people chess 30 years from now? We should give more tools for learning for young chess players.

I understand there is chesskid.com but I like playing games live. So the problem is that there is only about 10 people on live chess so you end up playing the same people over and over again, which is no fun.

Well, realistically if you want to learn at all at your level, a chess book (many of which can be found being discussed around the forum) picked up at your local library might be the best idea.

Otherwise, I understand your concern. Chess.com for non-paying members has limited options. At the risk of being warned by staff and having this comment deleted below is a link that should help as it provides other links to various areas around the web (and Wikipedia -shudder- But should be fine for this).

http://www.chessvideos.tv/article-Improve-your-Chess-with-Tactics-Training-1.php

Chessmaster, if you can afford the earlier editions, has IM Joshua Waitzkin's annotated games which are a fantastic tool for everyone up to around 1800 at a guess. Alternatively you can search for WiichessVids on Youtube and come up with a good assortment of his videos, though certainly not all of them are on there. Of course with the right keywords you should be able to find all you need on Youtube.

So while I think Chess.com isn't going to provide easy access to it's features for non-paying members anytime soon (they need to make a buck as well) you have so many resources nowadays that you shouldn't be without for quite some time.

If he can afford the chessmaster he could have gone for the gold star membership for a year instead.

The Gold Membership would offer incredibly limited help at best. I am not seeing that as a good way to improve.

But hey, perhaps pulling out a book or listening to masters talk about what they were thinking was silly of me :P

It seem nowsaday the kids just want "more" of something for nothing. sheez.

If you could get a membership at chess.com, would you?

Is $15 completely out of reach to you, every month?  Isn't that the cost of the premium membership where other good options don't offer quite as much access but increase your access substantially... Could you occassionally try it for a month at a time?  Have you tried the trial premium membership?  I don't know if you can get one of those prepaid debit cards and use that to fund n months of chess.com + two weeks of free trial.  Where there is a will, there is often a way.  There are other ways to learn, but the trainings here are great.  Even as a non-paying member if you search around I think you'll find videos, discussion, analysis live and written and all kinds of ways of learning.  At 1000 ELO just about any exposure to any information like that is bound to be educational and help you improve.

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1.join a tactics server

2.study all the titled player articles here.. .there are tons and tons of them

3.join a group on here and befriend the stronger players, analyze your games and then see if they can find even more improvements.