How can I reach 1000?

I'm currently a 700 player in rapid, and I've been trying to reach 1000 rating for a while now, but I've been stuck at the 700 level for a LONG time, longer than almost any previous rating benchmark. Can someone give me any tips on how to improve my rating?

So I’m noticing that you are a very aggressive player. You follow opening principles and are willing to jump in if you see an opportunity. That’s an admirable attitude towards the game; however, I think focusing on more solid chess is a better approach for now. There’s a lot to learn by playing “normal” positions, and by accumulating advantages through pedestrian means, the opportunity for a tactical knockout soars. Think of it as getting closer to the bowling pins - we learn many aspects of the game to increase our chances of scoring a direct win.

Rudolf Spielmann once commented how he could calculate just as far as Alekhine could, yet Alekhine could induce the conditions for a successful attack much more skillfully.

Also make sure to always be on the lookout when it comes to hanging pieces, both yours and your opponents’. At 700, I know you’re aware of this, but if you play more solidly and pick off your opponents’ hanging pieces instead, you might find more success.

I hope this helps.

Taking time after each game to review your mistakes can be very helpful. Identify a common set of mistakes and you can focus a training plan on that area

If your most recent game is to be believed, you're playing 30-minute games, but you're not using those 30 minutes at all. You had a whopping 26 minutes left when the game ended.

That's not good. You need to play slowly to get better. Really think about what you're doing.

Now, let's look at a game you lost where the playing field was more level:

It is worth nothing that you had MORE time left on your clock at the end of the game than you did at the start (though, to be fair, your opponent did too). Had you taken a moment to think about what you were doing before some of your moves, you might have very well avoided the tragic blunder that shattered the game to pieces for you, and you might have noticed the early checkmate as well.

In conclusion, the clear issue with your playing is that you aren't making much use of your time. Try to slow down a bit and think really hard about your moves. Until you really do start running out of time, no one is rushing you.

Edit: I figured out why 19. d3! is the right move in that position. I was right about the outpost part, but I missed the fact that it gives your other bishop room to move as well.

Don't play 1600 players.

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you can't lol... seriously though focus on tactics

You are playing rapid so you probably have enough time to check if a move blunders a piece or not on every move. If you want to get to 1000 you need to also check for two move blunders like forks and skewers. An easy trick with knight forks is that you can’t get knight forked while your pieces are on different colour squares. Avoiding getting skewered is as simple as not putting your pieces in the same diagonal or rank or column as each other.

i agree Flynn347

You are already a good player though as your stats say “62.1 percentile”

Don’t blunder

That's literally my coach.

You play rapid

Why do you feel you need a higher rating?

Bigger number make brain happy.

It's not against the law to desire improvement.

Fr3nchToastCrunch made a lot of good points. Another thing that will help which I saw in the game of yours they posted is, you sack one of your pieces to expose your opponent's king. You're way too low elo to want to make a habit of sacrificing pieces. This is not something that is needed to reach 1000. Being an aggressive player and making your opponent uncomfortable is good, but sacrificing is a tactic you should not be using at your elo. Leave that for when you're over 1000. I mean, I just hit 1200 and I hardly ever need to rely on a sack - if you just play solid (non-crazy) chess, and make enough threats against your opponent, he or she will blunder.

Tldr; stop sacking pieces. You don't want to be offering your opponent free pieces. You want to be taking free pieces.

They are not that good of a coach then if you are playing King's Gambit as your "study". You should be focusing more on the Italian, Ruy Lopez, Queen's Gambit. Follow basic principles.

1. Don't play the same piece twice.

2. Don't bring the queen out early.

3. Castle early.

There's more, but this is a start.