How long did it take you to get an elo of 1000 in chess.

1 year

@ vivement

I looked at your game vigarism-vivement...the received wisdom is that (normally) you should try to make only 2-3 pawn moves in the opening so that you can develop your pieces quickly...it's not a hard-and-fast rule that a more experienced player than you will always follow but you are likely to see this advice in all beginner books.  But you start out with 4 pawn moves in the first 5 moves and you don't gain any tempi (moves) to compensate for these pawn moves.  Even worse, you're doing this while playing as black.  Better players than vigarism will recognise why your opening moves are poor and be able to punish you by attacking your pawn center and gaining a big lead in development followed by a dangerous attack.

So you're violating opening principles here...in other words you're not doing what the beginners books tell you to do.

@ hrarry  "I haven’t read any chess books"

well I'm 60 and I learnt chess in the pre-internet era so that's how I learned...and I used to really enjoy reading chess books and playing through the games on my little portable chess set...there are lots of good books but also lots of books that you might find unhelpful because they're too advanced for you...I'd say that  4-6 well-chosen books would give you the solid base of knowledge that could help you to develop into a stronger player than me.

There's a guy in Scotland with whom I have a slight aquaintance who did something unusual.  He was graded about 1800 when he was 18 and went on to become a grandmaster while working as a maths teacher.  His name is John Shaw.

So anybody can improve a lot...it's just that we need the work ethic and motivation...and maybe a bit of guideance so that we use our time productively.

here's John's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Shaw

Hello

senorpettirojo thanks for the reply -

Yes I've systematically twice gone through 'Amateur's Mind', Chernev's Move by Move, once through Stean's 'Simple Chess', not only reading but setting up all examples on a real board, playing through and understanding them. I like to think I now know more about bad/good bishops and other imbalances than my lowly rating suggests.  I'm 1700 on chesstempo Mixed tactics (where you get 5 minutes time limit for each problem) and 2000+ tactics on here so I think my tactics are kind of OK.  In real games however I think I sometimes struggle with straight out commonsense in the heat of battle.

I found the GingerGM longer games series, looks great, thanks for recommending!

Sure - I'll set up a challenge for a 3 day unrated game, always up for learning more.    

Idk but play obvious openings like french, caro kann and etc.

One year playing for me , on chess.com , a couple of games every day , from 600 to 1000, the hardest is to stay focused,  chose an opening and  keep it till I know how to react by heart really helped me , how to keep a sane pawn structurre as well ..., but I'm damned slow ha ha

cool

congrats on 1300 

i started at 800, went down to ~530 bc i kept playing Qpawn openings and then went back to 800 when i stopped doing that

Started playing on January 26, 2022 and hit 1000 on June 30th, 2022. Currently at 1377 (Rapid).

As for reaching and surpassing 1000, the two most helpful concepts are: Opening Principles and Tactics. These two things alone will get you to 1200+. There's no need to study any deep opening theory just yet. That will come later. Just be sure to study not every game but every loss. Learn what your mistakes were and learn from them. Learn from your losses and add to your repertoire as you figure out your natural or preferred openings are. Mine is the Italian Opening as white for example, so I've added things like the Italian - Koltanowski Gambit and the Evans Gambit to my arsenal. I've studied the mainline, a couple of sidelines and the declined variation. I guess what I'm getting at is that  you'll realize that improvement in chess is a process of constantly trying to learn something. Always trying to improve. It takes A LOT of study. But if you want it bad enough, nothing will stop you. 

Good luck!! You'll get to 1000 in no time. 

6+ months, from mid June 2022 till 5 Feb 2023 (both Rapid and Blitz)

Took me a month. I learnt new moves because I lost some games but now I am a very strong player

i started out around 1300. But i had played some 15$ otb with a a friend in the year before, and i had looked a bit on chess.com to see that it was more important to get officer in play than moving pawns in the opening.

It will take one week to get 1000-1300, if you follow our guidelines.

I still don't even have an elo that's how bad i am i stuck sooo nuch

*I suck soo much