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

I stopped playing chess 2-3 years ago but came back to it recently. My rating before that was in the 700-900 range, but now I’m up at 1800

just a question for people who have went to chess tournaments, can my parents enter the playing hall ?

I learned chess at the age of 6.

I have had an over the board rating ov belew 1000 for 9 years!!!

And then when I was 15 I played the tourneament of my life, with only two other player being rated around 1000 every other ranging from 1300 to 2000. First round I beat a 1600, I finnish third last with 3,5 points out of 9, gaining almost 100 points in one tournement.

I only joined chess.com years later, so I never dropped below 1000, but in my overall chess experience I'd say it was actually 9 years.

I went from trying different opening to mastering only two openings each for black and white for response on both e4 or d4 I surfed all the way from 800+ to 1200+ I realise the harder it get to reach 1300+ I'll have to change my openings again or master the old ones with extra effort

after falling to 400 it took me a few weeks of watching chess content an playing some games to get to 1000 level. to actually get to 1000 rating took longer

I feel stupid. I have been playing for the past year and not sure I can stay in the 800s at this point. I have done all the usual suggestions, but can't stop blundering. Videos, books, lessons, puzzles, In one year of playing 15/10 games, 458 games, I have improved a measly 98 ELO. I think I will continue for one more year and if I can't make it, quit. It just gets too frustrating and depressing. It's difficult to watch people who have been playing a much shorter time do so much better than me.

Took me about a month or month and half i think and because i had no experience i had to catch up by studying quite alot, the higher ratings become alittle easier to deal with if you have proper study. Im 2 and a half months in with 1300 elo, seems alittle easier and more fun than my 900 and 1000 elo matches

It took around a month, partially because I already had experience from other games like Xiangqi and Shogi

1 month

It took me a month to reach a rating of 1000 , and to be honest, I wasn't even trying that hard. I used to play 4-5 rapid games a day casually, just for fun, without aiming for any specific goal. I enjoyed playing chess, so I kept at it, and it just happened naturally.

Dont focus on strong tactics. First reduce your blunders. Otherwise youll have low elo like me

That was my mistake

Not even there yet

In about a month, of we're talking rapid

WHAT DOES ANYBODY NEED ELO RATING FOR?

A fair question, and one that can be answered by anyone who has ever run a tournament or has been certified as a tournament director (TD).

Ratings are needed by TDs to be able to run tournaments. Before pairings can be made, the players need to be put in order from highest to lowest. So, say you have 20 people in a Swiss System tournament. You rank them according to ratings from 1-20. You cut the list in half and player 1 plays number 11; 2 plays 12; 3 plays 13 etc... Round 2 is paired by score groups: one point, half point and zero point. These groups are also put in rating order and the same process goes on... This is only possible if a standard rating system, based on player results from previous tournaments, exists. The rating system we have is called "Elo," because it was named for Arpad Elo, the physicist who applied the science of statistics to the development of chess ratings.

So, you don't need a rating unless you want to participate in tournaments. It can be used as a substitute metric for seeing if you are making progress as a chess player, since it is result-based. The more you win, the higher you go. People then judge themselves based on their rating instead of on their basic playing skills, which, if improved, will go up over time.

about 7 months in both blitz and rapid

Been playing for over 20 years and I'm still below 750.