I am Swastik Mathur trying to get 1600 Classical FIDE Rating by the end of 2025 , I want to apologize for abusing chess.com Fair Play policy in my 1st account ( swastikmathur2) anyways past is gone I want to wish all of you good luck for your future👍👍

I have recently started chess again as I took a long break from online and OTB chess but I am back here and trying to improve

Edit ( 6 Aug 2024) - I have started to play a lot of chess tournaments (OTB) and found myself a coach too there is a rating tournament in Sep so I have started my prep for it

Edit (1 Jan 2025)- Started the grind to 2000 Bullet and Rapid

Edit (12 Jan 2025)- Played a OTB Tournament and got 5/6 Points

Edit (13 Jan 2025)- Got a Chess clock DGT 2010

Edit (24 Jan 2025)- Got All time Highest Rapid Rating 1380

Edit (25 Jan 2025)- Reached 1400 Rapid

Edit (29 Jan 2025)- Reached 1100 Bullet

Edit(6 Feb 2025)- Reached 1200 Bullet

Edit(17 Feb 2025)- My Annual exams have started , so I don't have much time to play chess but I will try to play bullet or blitz apart from this there are 2 FIDE rated tournaments that are going to held in march so when my exams end(7 March) I am gonna go all out to push my rating to at least 1600 rapid.....

Edit(9 March 2025)- My exams ended , I have a classical tournament on 23march to 27 march. I have started to prepare and play chess again as usual . I also have a tournament in another state (Delhi), It is a Blitz Rated tournament in which many IM's and a GM is coming.

Edit(13 March 2025)- Reached 1500 Rapid

Edit(20 March 2025)- Finally after soo much hardwork I got 1600 rapid , my classical tournament is near. I will still try to get more rapid rating but focus more on playing OTB so that I can adapt easily in the tournament .

Edit(27 March 2025)- My First Classical Tournament in 2 years is finally over . I scored 6 out of 9 points with 4 wins 4 draws and 1 Loss , I got paired 4 rateds and defeated 2 of them and drew with 2 . Totally If i could have got 1 more rated i would have become a FIDE Rated player I will put a link to my performance here - https://chess-results.com/tnr1117230.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&turdet=YES&snr=271 , now after this I am going to play a blitz rated tournament in Delhi with my GM's and IM's . Yeah this is it , if u wanna know more about this Tournament , Soon I will be posting a blog of this tournament review .

Edit(2 April 2025)- My Delhi Blitz Tournament has finished and I scored 5/9 points and got 8 rateds out of which I scored 4 points so I am kinda expecting my FIDE Blitz rating to be 1507. But there is a catch that out of the eight only one was blitz rated, other were classical rated, So i am not sure will my rating come or not.

Link for my performance - https://chess-results.com/tnr1116394.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&turdet=YES&flag=30&snr=637

Edit(4 April 2025)- Reached 1300 Bullet

Edit(3 May 2025)- My blitz fide rating came in 1566 . I had taken a 1 month break but i am back on online chess and till the end of summer vacations I am hoping to get 1700 Rapid

Edit(28 May 2025)- I have started to play some blitz as well for warmup

Edit(27 June 2025)- Reached 1700 Rapid (finally ended the plateau)

Edit(16 July 2025)- Played in SGFI selections for my block in U-17 category and got 1st position with 4/5 points that is 3 wins and 2 draws (one with a 1441 rated) *Qualified For District* . My performance link - https://s3.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&snr=31&tno=1217920

Edit(20 July 2025)- Reached 1400 Bullet , btw Happy International Chess Day

Edit(23 July 2025)- Played in SGFI selections for my district in U-17 category and got 2nd position with 4/5 points that is 3 wins and 2 draws (both with rated) *Qualified For Divison*. My Performance link -

https://s2.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0&tno=1222855

Edit(30 August 2025)- Played in SGFI selections for my divison in U-17 category and got 7th position with 3.5/5 points that is 3 wins and 1 draw and 1 loss . NOT Qualified for State SGFI and this puts a full stop on my last SGFI run. This tournament has fired a revenge fire inside of me and i am now determined to play more FIDE events after my half yearly gets over

My Performance Link - https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1243580.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&snr=27&SNode=S0

Edit(5 September 2025)- decided to play a lot of OTB Tournament as I am struggling with OTB Chess lately

Played a Local chess tournament and scored 4.5/5 with time control of 15|10 and defeating a rated in process and securing 1st position overall

Locking in for studies as Mid terms are nearby . My Performance link - https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1248088.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&snr=22&SNode=S0

Edit(30 Sep 2025)- Reached 1800 Rapid

Edit (7 Oct 2025)- I just completed playing one of the strongest event I played with one of my worst performances , it was state amateur championship and I scored 3/7 points ik.. this is very bad but the crazy thing is it was a 2 day rapid tournament and I scored 3/4 on the first day . But sadly lost all the games on the second day …. but still it was a good experience as I played against a 2100 FIDE and ofc lost but I noticed all my gaps and flaws that I need to work on

My performance link - https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1258824.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=IND&turdet=YES&snr=81&SNode=S0

SwastikMathur