2026 Improvement Goals!

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Avatar of Jane_Doe_17

My goals are

Daily 1000

Rapid 800

Blitz 800

Avatar of The_Blunder_Alien

Cross 1400 in rapid, blitz

Avatar of Three_Dots_Chess

My goal is reach 1400-1500 rapid and ~1000 blitz and bullet

Avatar of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz44

My goals for 2026:

To be able to train consistently, adhering to my plan.

2200 FIDE classical

2500 blitz chess.com

2300 rapid chess.com

2000 FIDE rapid

2100 FIDE blitz

I also want to be able to reach 500 suscribers on yt, and manage to stream and post videos regularly.

Avatar of ChessThien

aiming 2300 elo in rapid !

Avatar of oykuboyku

My goal is to reach 500 elo in rapid here! I know it's not high but my ADHD brain and chess don't work well together, but I enjoy it a lot! So I want to improve but realistically I am going to improve a lot slower than average person. So 500 it is!

Avatar of Storm2544x

My goals are 750 blitz, 650 rapid, and 650 blitz this year.

Avatar of Jxsh

I want to start playing in more otb tournements and potentially win one. i wish for my rapid rating to be 1600-1700.

Avatar of tarun80503

I lost 170 elo last week in a tilt spiral, but no matter how hard I try, I am not regaining any rating. What do I do?

Avatar of outwittedyou
tarun80503 wrote:

I lost 170 elo last week in a tilt spiral, but no matter how hard I try, I am not regaining any rating. What do I do?

The best thing you can do is take a break, I know from experience. It can be really tough to recover from tilts, and recovering from a long period of seemingly uncontrollable losing is really frustrating. Just take a break to clear you mind and don't focus on the wins or elo, just take everything move by move and try to have more fun with the game!

Avatar of GeckoSoloYT

I want to reach 700 rapid, 550 blitz and 500 bullet (currently, I am 430 rapid, 300 blitz and bullet)

I would also like to have 1500 games all time and beat a 1000

Avatar of Gothenburgess

I was happy to break through 1900 chess.com rapid last week and today I managed to reach my May goal of 1907. My goal for June or earlier this year is 1930.

Avatar of K1ngChuck3r

1900 Blitz 1900 Rapid

Avatar of mental-central-dialog
mental-central-dialog wrote:

My goal is to reach 2000 by next summer. We'll see how it goes.

Updated goal: 2300 rapid by the end of the year

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outwittedyou wrote:
tarun80503 wrote:

I lost 170 elo last week in a tilt spiral, but no matter how hard I try, I am not regaining any rating. What do I do?

The best thing you can do is take a break, I know from experience. It can be really tough to recover from tilts, and recovering from a long period of seemingly uncontrollable losing is really frustrating. Just take a break to clear you mind and don't focus on the wins or elo, just take everything move by move and try to have more fun with the game!

Turns out, the reason my rating was 200 points lower. It was because of my own self under-confidence. Like you said, I wasn’t treating chess as a game. I was playing for the rating. It all makes sense. I was taking breaks, but my mindset was fixed incorrectly for good chess

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I have updated by goal to 2100 by the end of the year (I recently hit a peak of 1804, so I reached my goal)

Avatar of LordLuck-wm

By the end of 2026, I want to accomplish 1400 elo!

Avatar of GeckoSoloYT

I managed to hit my blitz goal of 550 but then I had a small tilt, I'm currently 500 in blitz and rapid now, 1000 games done now and I beat a 900 so I'm almost there for that goal, I technically beat a 1000 but they just never moved which doesn't count, only if they actually play

Avatar of StageDistro

Idk If I commented on this already, but I hope to go up to 1600 and 2200 in puzzles. I also hope to get a winning record in an OTB tournament.

Avatar of Angobango3

My goals are get to over 200 elo for rapid , blitz and over 1150 elo for daily games