1000 to 2000 in a year?

lol I knew you were going to comment something like that, just reading the OP. 

Hm...where I live there are 2200+ players of all ages pretty much

In response to one of the OP's earlier questions: If you want 2000 blitz here quickly, don't focus on general chess improvement, and just study basic tactics tactics tactics, know them quickly, and know a lot of common tactical tricks. Also you'll develop strong board vision doing then. 

The way I play speed chess here is through tricks and gimmicks and playing fast. There's no reason to calculate a ton of variations and evaluations and flag in blitz. 

If you ever want to get a real OTB rating, then I suggest you quit almost all speed chess, like I did, starting a while ago. 

Jealous . Suck the knowledge out of them LOL.

Chess is not very famous in Mexico and all of the so called coaches just give the kids recipes because everyone wants fast results with no work, a recipe for failure...

I play OTB at work for a game or two on Fridays, but the competition is not really there. Maybe it's time to look into a chess club??

I disagree. I think it's unrealistic.

^In 8 months? I thinks so too. But going for 2000 blitz here is easier than going for 2000 OTB, assuming you don't care about OTB rating. 

Yeah, if his rating is really 1400 then I don't think he can be 2000 in 8 months. Even if he adopted some kind of specialized approach only for online blitz.

Although I haven't played blitz on here in a few years (yeah I know I have a few games on this account, but to get a feel for the site I think I'd need to play a few hundred which I could do in a few days). Maybe 2000 isn't what I remember it was back in e.g. 2014.

 I think an OTB rating is an admirable thing; just that I have 2 kids and no time to spend hours in tournament halls. But I think joining a local chess club would be a fun next step to take. My goal is just for personal improvement, not seeking fame or glory or any delusions of grandeur. 

Pros and semi-pros make the rest of us look bad. So ok, it may not be fame or glory  But it's a strong amateur, and probably someone who loves the game. I think it's a great goal

yah perhaps 2000 is definitely a stretch goal. I'll be happy as long as i continue to make progress. I do anticipate hitting a wall at some point and needing to change approach to break through 

2000 is fine, it's just 2000 in 8 months I have a problem with.

As for a wall and a training approach, I'm not sure. My philosophy is that people should work to be well rounded, and that working on weaknesses yields the most improvement. The main areas being: openings, tactics, strategy, and endgames. (And as an all around useful activity going over complete games.) Yes I think even endgames are very important in blitz. You have no time to figure things out and calculate, so (ideally) you know the usual evaluations, plans, and moves.

One pitfall I ran into with blitz is that tricky openings work well at first, but the higher you go they can suddenly stop working almost completely. Ideally an opening will have tricks, but also if the opponent plays correctly you're not in a miserable position. Unfortunately I had been using a bad opening that relied on my opponent not knowing what to do. An example would be the Latvian gambit. Maybe an example of a tricky but sound opening would be the Moller attack (out of the Scotch gambit lets say).

Cool. Thanks for the helpful tips. I normally stick to basic openings like Ruy Lopez or Sicilian or Nimzo indian if White plays D4. Trying to expand my game so I can play D4 confidently. 

Come on dude, stop trolling, we all know that Bobby Nuts said you need to have one opening for each side that you know as well as the palm of your hand.

 Who's bobby nuts?

11th World Champion.

@Bronsteinpawn ic. So you think it's not worthwhile to learn D4 as an opening? Just seems like a big hole to have.

Everyone needs to know how to play 1.e4 and 1.d4 if you look at Bobby Fischer he never played 1.d4 but he did know how to play 1.d4. Some positions and games arising from 1.d4 will make your positional understanding better, or at least that is what happened with me, I dont play 1.d4 but I did study it and play it for a while and that is where stuff like not releasing the tension and the relative value of pieces started to make sense for me.

Try it out if your heart tells you to altough you should be working on every part of the game.

Tlowe999, first you need to work on your basics before consider to go to 2000 blitz. I think its better to set reasonable goals in chess, you at 1400, set it to 1600, much more realistic than unreachable goal of 2000.  

You miss a win on move 32... Ba6! wins a piece by force. 32... Ba6 33. Ke2 Kd4 wins the knight. Two mover shouldn't be difficult to find.  

@yureesystem good point. Goal set at 1600.