Advice to young chess players...

If you could give one bit of advice to a young chess player, what would it be?

Try to be such as me! 

Watch this playlist (except part 3):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4MpoYIZOI&list=PLu-dAIWCYtaG5-qikVWTKVbSuJkFO0Crm

You'll learn everything you need to get to 500 ELO!

Play.

Play with as many different opponents as possible and learn from your mistakes.

Have fun.

Depends how young you are...

For the love of Christ, do something useful with your time!

I don't know. I am one.

Surely there must be someone younger than you, wise child.

First of all, anyone younger than me still would have seen you spelled "there" wrong. You typed "their." Anyway, there probably is.

SlimReaper99

You got it.

tactics tactics and more tactics, while you have all those extra neurons and plasticity

Hey, quit the shenanagins you little whipper snapper; I always spell "there" perfectly correctly and I always spell "their" perfectly correctly.  Although, in my haste, I've been known to inadvertantly substitute one for the other, in what might be called by younger people a grammatical error.  Besides, look again, my spelling and grammar appear to be impeccable.  Now, about that advice to your juniors...?   Better get started now.  Don't wait until you're an old man to start helping the next generation get off to a good start!

Look carefully at how I play and don't copy.

As a person who has played both Chess and Shogi, I really hated Shogi. Especially that dumb (that's how call it anyway) recycle-your-opponents-pieces rule. It never really was clear to me how a dead, captured unit could still continue fighting, once it was taken by the other player. No army in the world let's its POWs fight on the front lines on its behalf, so it shouldn't be possible in a board game, which is all-in-all a representation of war, either. Just silly ... And Go is too complex to really get good at it once you're past a certain age, but those are just my 2 cents.

Enjoy the game, keep it as a hobby and pwn your opponents.

I guess I would say, "There's a reason behind each of my moves.  Before moving, try to see what it is, then make a plan that either makes my plan unusable or is better.  I'm definitely not the best chess player out there, so you have the ability to be much better than me if you take your time and make the best moves you see."