1000 Rating

Today I reached 1000 ELO! My goal is to get to 2000 by the end of the year. Any tips to get there? 

win lots of games 
dont loose concentration

You will need to seriously study the game. Put at least 2 hours a day into chess. Do Puzzles, learn Openings, and play all the time controls seriously - Bullet and Blitz help with Rapid when you are low on time.

congrats

i am about 1450 but i am stuck there so i am trying to study a lot

do puzzles

The rating system scale is not arithmetic, it is logarithmic. On average a 400 will score 75% against a 200 but an 800 will score better than 93% against a 400 (a 600 will score 75% against a 400) and a 1600 will score better than 98% against an 800 (a 1000 will score 75% against an 800).

If you went from 400 to 1000 in a year then the same rate of improvement may see you reach 1300-1500 after another year (and that would be a respectable accomplishment).

You should have a great understanding of your opening repertoires, have atleast some endgame understanding (especially rook and pawn endgames), learn positional chess (its highly important), watching masters play certain openings will help (you can find games online or in books), and go to your local chess club if you can. Another thing that helps me is finding a local bookstore or library to read chess books (YouTube videos will help too, but doing both is recommended). Remember! Puzzles should be your warm-up! do not only study a thousand puzzles because you will not get far in chess; they are still important. It is a mistake several chess players make. I hope this helps!

if you want to get better, play lots of games and review them to learn patterns

if you want to gain rating, play few games against players a bit above you and analyze ahead of time.

Given the same amount of effort, #1 is more fun but #2 will make you more competitive by reducing avoidable losses.

This tip can carry you through at least 1500: most people below this will blunder at some point, so just don’t blunder yourself and set traps. For all those saying study is necessary, this isn’t fully true until around 1850.

so..... Study Pachman's book on chess strategy!

One thing I notice that separates 1000 and 2000 is that:

1000 make concrete threats [hoping they are not seen] that when the 2000 responds the 2000 position is better and the 1000 is worse

2000 make concrete threats [expecting them to be seen and responded to] that when the 1000 responds, the 2000 position is better and the 1000 worse.

How does the 2000 know what is better? She/he has studied middlegame strategy and can evaluate positions better.

I generally invest my time learning a few openings and learning them well. That way, I learn the best responses to each move. That strategy has made my openings fine. The main reason my rating is remaining around a thousand is because I have not yet mastered the middle game.

You are still new to chess.com. From 1000 to 378 and back in a couple months is a nice pull! There's something there!? Get to a real Over the Board money tournament as soon as you can! Pick a $10,000+ tournament, that's FIDE rated, is a 2 or 3 day tournament, that experts and masters. Even if you don't play in 1 of the lower sections, , go to the top 5-10 boards and take note of their clocks at 10, 15, and 20 moves. Now go look up the tournament histories of the of 10 of the players you were watching at US Chess.

Come back to the general page and select Game statistics. Write down their name, highest level of player they have beaten, their keep ratio, and their record by year. Write down what was their best year.

Now go interview them!! The easiest place to get an interview is the skittles room. Just wait until their game is over. As they set up to go over the game, just go up to them and say, "Hey Mr/Ms _____________ my name is blank and I'm trying to improve at chess! I wrote down some stattistics on all the top players today and I was hoping to ask you a couple of brief questions about how to improve at chess... If it's ok, I see your best year was_____ you picked up _______ points that year! How did you do it?." I see that you have a great keep ratio against experts and masters... What do they miss? "What book would help me the fastest if I read it cover to cover?" "What's the best advice that you've ever followed and how did it change you?"

If you do exactly what I said to do, most of the top players will be happy to answer 3-5 questions. You just need to make the questions about them and their success!

You'll need to make a day of it. Once they see you a couple of times and find out what you are there for, some of them may come up to you! Have fun!! If they ask where'd you get the idea for this, tell them Coach Mike C!

So, 1000 to 2000 is a really big improvement. Getting to 1000 is just about getting the hang of the game quickly, and being able to see the whole board, and seeing how one piece attacks another piece. To improve to 2000 is a really big change, and takes a lot of time.

In my opinion, 2 years would be a much more reasonable goal, if you put a lot of time. (It took me 3 years and I started from 1300). Study tactics a lot, and positional chess.

Really? I went from 830 in January 2023 to 2050 in January of 2024

Practice makes perfect

that's insane, but maybe 830 was an underrate

In which rating system? You joined this site on July 18 of 2023 apparently choosing a 1600 starting rating. After a few starting hiccups while you got used to the interface (dropping to the 1200s) you got back to the 1500-1700 level by the end of July.

As far as starting under-rated goes, I mistakenly started at 1200 and within 50 games was over 1800 and almost at my normal level (took 11 games for daily).