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I've seen a couple of other people that have shared their progress and thought I would do the same. I'm not sure I will do daily updates, but I thought I would share some updates as time permits and show my rating changes as I progress. (or regress if all goes poorly) My current Ratings are (As of Dec 29, 2021) Daily 1142, Rapid 960, Blitz 663, Puzzles 1900 I have just started playing some 5-5 Blitz so I'd say I'm under rated; and haven't played much Rapid for a while, so it might be a little under rated there as well. I plan on looking over the course and getting all my material ready in the next few days and starting in earnest this weekend. What a great New Years resolution! Get Better at Chess..... it would make the world a better place (Or at least it couldn't hurt)

Even though my blitz were only 487 and Rapid 713 when signing up for this plan, my daily was 1080 before I got burned out and dropped a lot of dailies at the same time forcing my rating down. This combined with my daughter taking the novice study and me going to study the games from that book with her to help her understand them better made me feel like taking the beginners plan was the right choice for me. Looking forward to getting more comfortable with timed format in stead of just puzzles and dailies, and are excited to see where these 12 weeks of more focused practice will take me. Rapid: 713 Puzzles: 1300 Daily: 912 Blitz: 487

hello. im a kinda new to chess, ive been playing for around 4 or 5 years. i just found out about these study plans and im very exited to use them. i dont really know what more to say, so hope you have a nice day. Ratings: Puzzles 519 Daily 489 Blitz 378 Rapid 276

Rapid Chess Improvement - IRL? Hey everyone! After completing the Novice study plan with relatively great success (Link here), this is my 3rd attempt at creating a long lasting chess playing habit. The "playing" part is critical here, as I've been neglecting playing online games in favor of burying my head in books and video courses, which of course don't provide the same value without actual playing experience. I've joined an OTB tournament this past month and I want to keep myself sharp and get some training games in rapid/classical time controls, while playing little blitz (if only to practice fast intuition skills), so this Intermediate Rapid & Classical Plan is just for me My goals for this study plan are: Complete the allotted number of games every day no matter what - fighting my "Elo anxiety" Analyze the games I play religiously Stick to my schedule of tactics training (7 Circles, as recommended by Michael de la Maza) Play 1.e4 as White, 1...e5 in response to 1.e4 and the King's Indian Defense in response to 1.d4 and 1.c4 - and stop studying openings! Stick to good opening principles (developing all pieces, controlling the center of the board, getting the king safe etc.). @ibiwisi is my accountability partner with regard to openings - I'm counting on you! Life has been messy these past months, and now after things have settled down a bit I feel ready to tackle this challenge. I hope this will be beneficial for others like me, eager to improve and struggling to balance the hectic occurrences of life with the hobby of chess. I'll be posting a status update every day to maintain accountability. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and comments on my progress here. I'm also a moderator of the ChessGoals Discord server, so feel free to hit me up there too! Let us begin this journey, and hope for impressive rating gains in the following weeks! Stay tuned

Hey all, The prodigal son has returned haha! I took quite a long break from posting in the forum due to limited time in my day for the last 2-3 months but wanted to check back in with everyone! I am getting started with this thread a bit late as I'm in week four of this plan, but I've been having really good progress so far and wanted to share. I decided to jump into the Rapid and Classical plan as I had great success with the Intermediate Adult Learner program and have been continuing to improve based on the concepts I learned within that program. Below are the stats for the entire plan as I've been working on it. One thing I should note is that if I do have any extra time outside of the training plan, I try to review quite a few courses that I have on chessable, but I won't be describing those here as it's too hit and miss. For the Yusupov training, I'm starting with the first book, Build Up Your Chess. I've also been hitting the maximize content heavy and playing as many of those games as possible in addition to the puzzle training. Week Number End of week Blitz rating End of week Rapid rating Daily Game Rating Additional Study completed Game Analysis Takeaways Start 1425 1455 1471 1 1436 1469 1454 Completed Chapter 1 and test on Mating Motifs I ran into quite a few openings I was not familiar with and need to study. For tactics, I need to train up seeing skewers and pins. 2 1387 1464 1454 60 minutes of Rated Puzzles, 30 minutes of White openings and 30 minutes of Black openings In the opening, I need to look for attacks that also develop a piece. Tactics training should include skewers and looking for undefended pieces. 3 1401 1498 1435 Completed Study on Chapter 2 (Mating Motifs 2) but missed too many on the quiz so I'm redoing that study in Week 4 I ran into the King's Gambit in a Rapid game. In blitz or bullet, I usually do fine, but the slower time control is where I run into problems. Tactics training should be all about forks. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 I also wanted to celebrate that today I finally crossed the 1500 rating level in Rapid. I kept getting close to within a few points but would then always lose. I finally got there today though in a game that I was able to get a discovered attack on their queen and they didn't even realize it.

USCF: 1353Chess.com Blitz: 1075Chess.com Rapid 1479 (only 6 games) I am looking forward to focusing on improving my chess! -I already had several daily games going -Already have access to Silman's Endgame Course & Yusupov's Course as well Let's do this!

Hi folks. I Just starting my trip in the study plan. I found chessgoals by chance for an article about the differences between the ratings of the different chess platforms. The structure of the plans that I saw caught my attention, and well, here I am trying to achieve the necessary push to raise my level of play. The community of people in this club is very interesting, commenting and supporting each other, I think it is of great help and motivation. My start statistics are: Chess.com blitz: 2018 Chess.com Rapid: 2052.

I'm starting my study plan today. In addition to the plan, I'll also continue to work my way through Susan Polgar's Learn Chess the Right Way chessable course (now on third course) for additional tactics work. Starting Ratings: Blitz: 400 Rapid: 1170 Puzzle Rating: 1207 Daily: 400

I’ve set up my 5 games and played moves. What I don’t understand is the point of the rapid games. I don’t feel ready to do that yet.

This forum topic is where I will post progress on the plan.

Hello, I'm 34 and been playing chess since I was a kid, although didn't get into studying chess until I was in college. Like many long term projects, life and other interests have brought me other directions, but trying to get back into the swing of things with this study plan!

Hello all, Kicking off my beginner study plan tomorrow. Looking forward to getting started. Rapid: 1168 Blitz: 733

Hey all, I am very excited to start this study plan and work to become a chess expert. My current ELOs are as follows Blitz: 545 Rapid: 1066 Daily: 1103 Puzzle: 1603 GG GL HF! Let's get it!

time to strart , we see if i can commit for 3 monts my stats :

Hi folks. Just starting my journey in the study plan. I've been playing more seriously for the past couple years. Hit a bit of a road block with learning. I feel I'm probably around 1500-1700. Depends on the day. I can get to 2200 tactical rating on puzzles and then the next day drop 200 points. I can do 39 puzzle rush survival one day and then some days struggle to get 20-25 My one pitfall is I do not play regular rapid or blitz. So I'm hoping things can change with a good plan. Rapid: 1353 Blitz: 1213 Daily: 1759

Hi, this topic is for my novice study plan process updates. I am 30 years old, I didn't play chess since when I was a kid. I was never especially good at it, but I love what it has become with online communities, easily available books and tactics apps. Chess is specially interested to me, because it is a clear competitive discipline in which improvements can be tracked, and also, its concepts can overflow into other competitive fields. Im a sucker for improvement techniques be it in competitive gaming, sports or gym. I want to see how good i can get, since chess is pure strategy and calculation, and ELO was basically invented for chess, it is perfect for tracking how good one can get with smart practice. These are my stats: Puzzles: 1390 Rapid: 601 Daily: 1058 Blitz: 243 I've got this program few weeks ago but i waited for a better moment to start it, since i was extremely busy with work. I've played Daily games since then so my rating is higher there. I feel i can get higher since wins still come relatively easy, but i know i will strugle with rapid or blitz since time management isn't my strong suite. Few notes about my plan: I have diamond Chess.com profile so I will watch all of the begginer/intermediate/advanced basic guides. Out of books i have everything listed in the novice manual, + Soviet chess primer. Im really looking forward to them. On phone i have "tactics for begginers" app which i intend to use for Woodpecker method (im one week deep into it) . This will probably mess up my plan a little bit, but it seems worth it. Lastly, i just want to show how i organized the tracing. A simple excel table, with white fields signifying what needs to be done, a gray what doesn't: PD - play daily PR - play rapid PB - play blitz SA - self analysis MA - master game analysis ( logical chess) T - tactics O -openings S-strategy E-endings

Just starting out on the Intermediate Rapid & Classical Plan. Starting ratings: 1428 Blitz 1200 on the others because I've never played I have more games on lichess, I'm 1809/1926/1803 there for Classical/Rapid/Blitz https://lichess.org/@/wdhorton

Hello All, I am beginning the ChessGoals Beginner Plan. I have already completed a few days of it and will post the results as soon as I finish out week 1. I play primarily on chess.com and will be using the Daily Games feature and am trying to get up to speed on the analysis features, etc. in the chess.com functionality that I was oblivious to. I would like to use them to analyze and annotate my games. Here are my starting ratings for this course: chess.com Blitz 900 chess.com rapid 1139 I also have been doing a lot of puzzles and have a puzzle rating around 1930. I have been floating around in the 1900-2000 zone for a while and am trying to get more consistent.

And today, the day no one is waiting for. Mourato's new study plan 2. I started today the new study plan focused on rapid and Classical games. The starting rating are: Blitz: 1328 (huge recent drop, normally it is between 1450 and 1500) Rapid: 1681 Daily: 1272 (huge drop recently - leave a tournament and lose all 10 matches =P).

Starting the intermediate plan today. purchased it a long time ago and did nothing with it for the last year or so. my ratings are: Rapid:1747 Blitz: 1229 (really start making silly moves when i am low on time) USCF:1349 I look forward to finally trying this plan out. see y'all around. -Playschessatwork