YEAH!! I finally broke 1000!

I would be curious to see a percentage breakdown of the players on Chess.com.  I would bet that most are below 1000

I played OTB maybe 8 or 9 games between 16 years old and 17 and i lost them all,and i felt really ignorant so i went and bought many books on opening and middle games....maybe 6 books..before i started to play my first OTB game at 16 i already had read a full book tu understand what i was doing.

So when i started to play online around 1999 i already knew a lot.....

And i still bought a lot of books maybe 10 + before i got to 1300....a great book on end game and 4 or 5 on opening....a few on middle game and strategy....

We all do it if a different way......and to get better in the last few years i did thousands of tactical problems...maybe 5 thousands...

BTW a few weeks is not 2....it could be 6 or 7..playing daily at least 4 slow games every day.That is 200 games.

Go look at your statistic page you will see where you are....

pointless little thread that has gone on for too long.

There's no threads on the big outage recently but a noob breaking 1000,  that has become the headline for the last month.

Maybe you could tell us your big achievements, sir.

I think I see a grudge match brewing

Well done, tj! I won a chess tournament last week and that was a fantastic feeling too. Keep at it.

Well congrats! ^-^

Hopefully I'll make it there sometime in the near future

hello

congratulations

Congrats man. Chess is a good investment for improving ones brain. That is the reason why I play chess and it is a very good thing.