1900 USCF -> Looking to Break Expert

It's hard for me to compare the chess.com pool to my own chess clubs pool.  What I can say is that many of my 2100 uscf friends are also 2100+ blitz although i know a 2100 uscf who is 2000 blitz and a 1900 who is 1700 blitz.  So basically some people are better at blitz than their uscf and some people are worse at blitz than their uscf.  If you are talking about standard on chess.com I can't really say much since many of my real life friends don't play much standard chess online.  It seems higher rated players play more blitz than standard haha.  What I have noticed from my own play in standard on chess.com is that my standard rating is more than 100 points less than my uscf.  Also the players in the chess.com standard pool seem to play really strongly atleast against me.  Look at this example game...I am barely winning against a 1600( which I really shouldn't have won, but he messed up a draw) while a 1600 otb would not have played this well against me.  Here is the game I am referring to: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=417718773

Haha finally broke 2000 uscf and even got to play a GM in my last tournament :)

nice!

and yes, I believe that live-standard players on this site are better than most equivalent OTB rated players, for various reasons...

Finally made it to 2100...the next 100 will be the hard part.

This really made me laugh for some reason.

My chess education is very unstructured.  I only did things that seemed fun for me and that usually meant blitz games and opening studying (Looking at grandmaster games in the openings that I play + managing an opening repertoire in chessbase).  I also tried to play at least one tournament a month.  When I was 2100 I also started working with a couple GMs and that also probably helped me get to National Master.  Another thing I did was attend a local chess club once or twice a week.    

Let this be a lesson to that chess guy with a library full of 50 books who wonders why he doesn't get better.

Puh, good that I only have 49 books...

....and it´s even better if it´s a couple of GMs 

Congratulations National Master redchessman.

I'm not aware of any countries that ban access to chess masters.  So everyone has access to them.

Except people who live in rural areas, and/or dont have enough money to pay for lessons (or time to take lessons).

This is how I plan on breaking 2000 one day.

Honestly, it's not that rare. This is how a lot of people become good (at whatever).

Unless you plan on reaching the very top of the mountain, forcing yourself into a highly regimented practice structure seems counterproductive for most people.

Pardon My Blunders

Saw you got NM. Congrats!

And I thought I was going to give advice to this person -- an expert telling a master what to do haha -- good to avoid that embarrasment! This guy has improved incredibly quickly and deserves a lot of praise.

As far as how "hard" one should practice, I think there's an in between area. I think a person will do better if they can keep seeing and reminding themselves of the beauty of chess, so that they will better appreciate the new ideas they encounter and learn them better. That can sometimes involve, indeed, looking at areas of your game that are a bit weaker even if it doesn't let you think as highly of yourself :)

But basically what I have done is take an area of my game in which I am weak, and become really passionate about it. Pretend I'm explaining it to someone as if I were an expert in that phase of the game. That helps to make me fascinated about the parts of the game I don't know well, rather than frustrated about it. And eventually I actually become decent at that part of the game.

This is completely wrong and poorly explained.

lol, and I guess you're talking about blitz chess. Ok maybe you can have your little minigame, but in any real form of chess I'd be happy to take the 10000 on offer.

8 years have pasted