The_Vorpal_Blade Intermediate Rapid & Classical Plan

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)

Sounds great. Good luck!

Good luck !  It's a very helpful community.

After my post I realized I didn't post my 12 week goals..... So here they are.

Daily 1250 (100 point gain. I'm currently just off my all time high of 1148)

Rapid 1150 (190 points. I hadn't played rapid for a while and I believe I'm 100 points or so underrated, so I think 1150 is doable)

Blitz 1000 (337 points. This seems like a huge leap, but I hadn't played blitz for months before a couple of weeks ago, and I think I considerably underrated here)

Puzzles 2000 (100 points. I'm just off my high of 1917 so this should be doable)

Puzzle Survival 35 (5 points.)

Well, I've had what you might call a "soft start".... I really haven't begun in full, but I've been playing 5-5 Blitz and starting looking at the Build up your Chess material already. Monday will be my actually starting day.

I did want to post my stats again today because I started playing chess 1 Year ago today.

I'm going to update my goals on Monday as well, at least a couple. I have already broken 2000 on puzzles (though I'm back below that now), so I will set that a little higher and look over my others to see if they still look good to me.