From Beginner to a rating of 1100

Hi,

I started playing chess in earnest recently (thanks to chess.com) and have recently got to a rating of 1100. I've written an article of the aspects of chess I had to learn to get to achieve this rating level -https://medium.com/better-humans/chess-ultralearning-best-way-to-learn-chess-in-under-100-hours-bf58abce6569.

I'm wondering if anyone thought I have missed something / could have approached it better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MEvBsdf0Nc

Check out my chess educational video for beginners

All I needed to go was to join the site (they gave me 1200 rating points upon my sign-up) and I am already above 1100!

Congratulations! You have unlocked a new achievement, and with it comes new concepts and experiences.

That was an interesting read and from what I can gather you did actually train very effectively for a self-learner. Hopefully you're not going to stop your chess journey satisfied with reaching your first goal. 1100 rating is definitely good enough to beat most of people in a casual game of chess, but in world of chess it's barely scratching the surface. It is actually also the easiest part mentally for "ultralearner" as you are constantly getting feedback with fairly fast rating gain. Even a bit of tactics, strategy and endgame practice is enough to push you above other beginners, from which majority never really take the time to study the game, play for a while and then quit.

The higher your rating climbs the more frustrating learning becomes. Once you've mastered the basics and start to delve deeper into the strategy, positional chess and complex tactics you realize how little you actually know and how big the difference between the average club player and chess master actually is. At that point it becomes a massive grind of drilling tactics, studying endgames, openings, middle-games, reading chess books, analyzing games and most importantly playing a lot. And the progress (rating wise) gets slower and slower. This is where the true learners are separated from people who just want to be good enough to seem like chess masters to an untrained eye. Because if you're a 1200 rated chess player and you challenge any of your friends to a chess match, you're probably going to crush them 100 times out of 100, if they have not had prior training or study of the game themselves. For most people that is enough and they take on to learn another skill where the satisfaction of learning due to progress made is much more easily obtainable.

So keep up the good work and go for 1400 next! At that point you could probably play a fairly solid chess game against anyone and have mastered the basics of piece development, middle-game strategy and 2-3 move tactics and checkmates.

How did you carry and know?