Hello Ondrej, I just wanted to briefly discuss something about improving in chess that might help you a little.
Your rating in a single number expressing some sort of average of all your skills. For example, you might play endgames "like a 2000" but only play your middlegames "like a 1000," so your rating might be somewhere around 1500. In general, I have found that your rating is most heavily influenced by the area that you are the weakest in. You could be amazing at everything except openings, but if every game you find yourself in weird positions or down material because you fail in the opening, you will be performing substantially lower than what your other skills would suggest.
As such, there isn't an exact goal you need to reach to get to a certain level. There are people who are 1600 who are phenomenal at tactics but struggle elsewhere. On the other hand, there are people who are better at everything else, and their tactics are what are holding them back. If you want to see improvement as quickly as possible, I recommend that you keep record of why (not just how!) you are losing or winning your games, and attempt to identify your weakest area, then focus on that.
Best of luck
Hi everyone, I wantd to hit 1800 rapid rating here but I changed my goal to 1600 in 2025.
Is there any 1600 player and would you please try this?
Go to lichess, do puzzles
1 200, 1500,1800 (my current rating),2100,2300 and try 5-10 minutes of each, if you don't have much time, mainly 1800 -2100. Please tell me how many you got right, how many incorrect and in what time - I want to know how good I need to be to reach 1600.