How to reach 1000ELO

The only thing you need to get to 1000 is to blunder check your moves.

Anti-Blunder Check.
After each move ask yourself:
Is my move safe?
Can my opponent take or attack something?
Can my opponent play a forcing move on my half of the board?
Can my opponent move onto my half of the board and take or attack something?

The OP's post of needing only one opening for white, and one opening for black to get to 1000 rating is not really accurate if you are to follow the OP's logic. You would need one as white, and two as black. One for responding to e4 and one to respond with to d4. While I do agree with other posts that you don't need to have your opening memorized there is benefit from playing the same openings all the time. You get familiar the ideas and plans of the opening (if you are learning it properly), and you learn about the potential traps that other players play against that opening. Which leads to you not falling for them. When it comes to openings there are three things to focus on when under 1000. Those are 1. Opening principles 2. Tactics 3. Not dropping pieces. Any decent opening follows these, and players under 1000 are not good enough to consistently punish poor opening choices.

As far as #9's post: Super GMs at times play weird or objectively bad openings against lower rated masters. If they can get away with playing openings that are not solid, and still beat masters with them then players under 1000 can get better and reach 1000 while playing sub par openings. A player with a rating of 1000 would not be able to punish a bad opening choice nearly as well as a master could, and the Super GM still typically comes out with the win.

I second #2's YouTube channels recommendations. Those are good channels. I have many times recommended Chess Vibes.

The main things to do to get to 1000:

• Tactics: This is the most important thing. You have to learn how to win material through forcing combinations and moves. I also include in tactics not blundering. It won't matter how much better your opening is if you drop pieces, and give away your opening advantage. Getting better at tactics also improves calculation which being able to calculate accurately is important. 
• Endgames: Know the overkill mates and be able to do them in 30 sec or less. Learn the principles of the endgame well, and apply them consistently in your games. Learning king and pawn endgames is useful to get to 1000 rated. It certainly is better than memorizing more lines of an opening, or spending a lot of time on earning your opening improperly. 
• Opening: As I mentioned above the main things are to learn and apply the principles of the opening, keep an eye out for tactics, and blunder check. When it comes to openings players need to learn how to play the opening phase of the game, not memorize lines. Knowing what to accomplish, and be able to think through the position to best accomplish that is what needs to be done. There are too many openings and variations that you can't memorize all the responses you would need to know. 
• Strategy/ Positional play: For under 1000 rated players this will focus on two things mainly. First is improving your pieces position/work on coordinating your pieces towards a common goal. Second is learning how to evaluate a position. There are many parts to this, and too much cover when it comes to strategy and positional play. #2's post covers some of those areas. 

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What solid opening?

What does it matter? There are a lot of solid openings. Pick one and learn it. Build upon it.

I fully agree that the game is typically won with tactics, positional play, etc. in the middle game.

But why learning an opening first is better because:

• You can get early advantages; from a piece to better positions, and occasionally winning
• You can avoid mistakes that cost you bad positions, pieces and even the game
• You begin to see patterns and can anticipate

Its a starting point. Why start in the middle? It makes zero sense. Start with opening principles and pick one for white and one for black. Over time you will see the same patterns evolve. I've personally seen the same game over and over again for years.

Middle Game tactics: Absolutely more critical, but take a lot more time to become proficient. It will take longer if you enter the middle game at a disadvantage. And I will also admit that I was stuck for years unable to move up in ELO because I didn't improve my middle game.

But solid openings see me winning more than losing now because I have built upon the advantages of a good opening into the middle game., not because I see great tactical play, but because I avoid costly mistakes.

I havent done openings until I was like 1500cc and even then it was 6 moves length took me a month to get 1000 from 500 I think or month half didnt really do puzzles they just dropped pieces in one move and was hard stuck 1100cc and the thing I realized is tactics does a better job then anything you can think of you do need a good position to generate tactics but all of my opponents are patzers I even ran 1 c3 few times for a month straight and won great games I bong clouded a 1850 rated in 15 10 he didnt play the most accurate moves but I still won and I even lost to the bong cloud in rated rapids because I hung something simple openings are important but not that high on the priority list if you will just blunder away your position I learned 70 lines of dragon theory did my elo increase? not even close I just had to suck it up and do puzzles and it works I ran najdorf no opening theory and won and only used chess principles for a great portion of my time playing I mean you could learn a opening if youre bored of doing tactics but I would place openings at 3rd in the list tactics first and knowing where to position your pieces to maximize activity in any part of the game also knowing 3 moves of a opening doesnt mean you know it I played italian for a great part of my time on cc without knowing its a Italian

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how about this thinking about it for a while theres no one way to improve at chess so methods that didnt work for me could work for others but I rarely have to deal with a bad situation in openings it could be different so if you get crappy positions you could study a bit of the opening but I would just advise more on the opening ideas than mindlessly memorizing moves and actaully knowing what each move does I also never studied endgames in my life maybe a 15m video in 2023 as I rather win my games in the middle game but I have seen people gain elo from endgame practice so I think it could be flexible and you could possibly be right about the opening topic helping others since we all as humans have issues in different areas

I think the most important thing is putting in the work. 99% of the posts in the beginners forum are from people who are stuck and wanting advice. They aren't analyzing their games, doing puzzles, reading books... they are just playing blitz and expecting to get better.

probably when I was hard stuck at 1100 its because I didn't do my puzzles and just blamed it on my intelligence that and had a massive ego back then refused to learn from my mistakes

lets run another game later if you free

That was difficult to read without punctuation.

It sounded like you made some assumptions and didn't fully absorb what the message was.

For example, I never mentioned memorizing moves for an opening. Regardless, the memorization of an opening is hardly taxing. Take the Vienna Gambit, it's a very simple series of moves to remember and have a winning position or even the Game:

You also alluded to "rarely" dealing with bad situation in openings. We all have had bad situation in openings being caught off guard. And "bad" is relative. It just takes one mistake to be down a piece and in losing position early. There is a Quick Knockout Achievement for a reason:

Learning from mistakes is crucial.

Long time ago I stumbled into a Greek Gift win. It was pure luck, but I literally tried for years to repeat it, never successfully. I was locked into duplicating that attack after black castled kingside and would make foolish sacrifices with no follow up. I was always sacrificing a Bishop for a pawn for an opening, but had no follow up attack. I couldn't help myself; thinking I was right to do so.

I love sacrificing pieces for a better position, but I finally learned to only make that move when there was adequate compensation for doing so.

In fact, I have found that making trades for position is what wins me more games when its deadlocked in middle game. Giving up a rook for a knight or bishop to get a win is so satisfying.