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bruh i cant even pass 1k rating on rapid D:

2 months xD

I'm 1050 or something I was once 1400 due to 3 fluke wins a few years back I'm nearly 70 now 

I think I should give up on chess and get a band together We could have time to learn to play and replace the Rolling Stones as a sort of boy band when they pack it in 

Wow your're good

youre so good! i even stuck at 400 seriously..because i not good at rapid honestly because my style is bullet..puzzle is my main skill and i keep full focus on puzzle..and my favorite one is 4 player chess..only one i get above 1000+ is puzzles. Even 3-check is 1000+ from the past..now 900+

That's really good, but not too uncommon either. 

Some people naturally play 1000+ rating barely after learning the rules and how the pieces move; while others grind for months to even get over 1000 chess.com rating. It depends on a few things like how much time you put into improvement. 

Typically, a new chess player will learn the rules: https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess 

Then they will begin to implement fundamental concepts like chess opening principles into their game: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again or learning things like basic checkmates (for example King + Queen vs King, or King + Rook vs King). 

Given some time to practice (usually a month or few months), this usually gets a newer player to the 1000 rating threshold. However, even up to 1200-ish some people don't utilize basics like opening principles enough (maybe they weren't ever taught them, or maybe they still just struggle implementing it). 

After this, it is just slowly improving and learning more and more. Chess has sooo many things to learn, so it is no surprise that even titled chess players (like Grandmasters) are constantly learning still and refining subtle nuances to improve.

The topic of "how good am I really?" is actually fairly complicated to answer in chess, but it has to do with a lot of math concepts like rating pools or bell-curves and so on. 

The short answer is that how "good" a chess player is - only matters compared to who they compare themselves with. The "global" average on chess.com rapid is about 1150, so 1200 means you are already better than 50% of chess players online

That is the good news. The bad news (if it can be called that), is that average from EVERYONE is not even close to average among competitive chess players. We must keep in mind that most players on chess.com just play for fun or learning the game. Another "problem" is that chess rating is much tougher to increase once you get higher and higher (mainly because the opponents are better and there is less room for margin of error). It might take a studious "beginner" a week to go from 900 to 1000 rating, but a dedicated chess expert at 2100 might take 2-3 years to reach 2200, despite the fact that both 900 to 1000 and 2100 to 2200 is an "equal" 100 point increase. 

You should feel really happy with reaching 1200+ on chess.com! Nice job

1400-ish is roughly "intermediate" level for online even though it is probably better than like 90% of all chess players "globally."

1600-ish is about when most begin learning loose positional ideas like weak squares and targets. This is more like a casual "tournament player." Notice that in competitive tournament settings, 1600-ish is only average-ish even though they are way ahead of a non-tournament player (like someone playing online for fun).

1800-ish is a strong "tournament player" and has really learned a lot about chess; most never reach anywhere near this level.

2000+ (at least by USCF) is informally considered a "chess expert." By this level, many 2000+ rated players are already chess coaches or chess authors. 

Anything higher than this is contesting to achieve some chess "title" like "National Master" (NM) or "Grandmaster" (GM), but these are the super rare and elite type of chess player which probably took at least 10 years of hard work on chess improvement. At this level, it isn't even about gaining rating as much as "norms" and things like that. 

Hope this answer helps explain a complicated chess topic in a simple way

The 2 second increment in 3/2 time controls helps add time to the game for better quality, but I'd advise playing longer time controls for most players trying to improve. Blitz isn't good for long term improvement and learning because you need "thinking time" (especially when learning) and blitz doesn't offer much time to think with. 

10 minute chess (10 minutes per side, so the game could take up to 20 minutes to complete) is the most popular time control on chess.com (rapid), but even playing a little longer like 30 min or 15/10 min games is nice if you have the free time to invest in longer games. If you don't know what to do in the game and end up with a lot of "extra time" then I'd suggest lowering to 10 minute chess, but I wouldn't advise faster than this until you learn a lot and pattern recognition increases a lot

Dont give up! the best to do is continuing both (time to replace these Rolling Stones)

nah that is really bad im 10,000 in one day

I've played for a year and just reached that 1200, but I'm much stronger than you in blitz. I've got an easy 100 points in hand, but it needs to be played out. I've noticed players up to 1350 are all same skill level, it's just about consistency and focus to put it together and taken the time and determination this is easy for me and for you. As you go higher in rating they see more of your threts, more of your strategic ideas hence they blunder less. Eventually I'm looking forward to playing real chess coming into new playing field over 1350 as I said, where deeper understanding of the game is neccessary and then climbing up to the next tipping point. But, yea as I said, it's like a different division. Also if anyone can contest to it, 1700 players are next level of consistancy to those below and that takes another year to go through until then. Those are like breaking points, once you go through it and accustom to it, you never go back down under it. So yea, chess progress is slow unless you're a kid and it really needs to be played out. That's the advantage kids have, they just play it out effortlessly and go through like it's nothing.

I think chess is almost all about memory. 

Remember oppening, remmeber pattern etc. And and especially in blitz. Like you have to remmeber the moves vs smith mora the traps etc. You cant stop for 10min to look slowly on every move. 

If you were like 800+ rating then it's pretty good if you were like 1100 then it's like you know not very impressive but if you were less that 800 it's very impressive

I mean the better your move is the more time it will usally cost. So if you can find good move fast thats really good. 

good

I've been playing for 4 days. I learned the moves on Friday at about 3 pm and it's now Tuesday. It's been a struggle.

Yes of course it's about memory. If leaving your king open leads to many mates despite peace up, you'll make sure they your oponents will never again have a chance even to sacrafice no matter what computer analysis says there. If you see knight in the middle makes them uncomfortable, or tucked away bishop surprises them you'll make sure to use that, if they know nothing about connected passed pawns, well yea you'll use that and so on. In in all honesty this actually works easier in blitz. People only use times when they need to get out of a very very uncomfortable situation. Anything under 15-16hunderd you don't need more than 10min game to figure out your cerful strategy and multiple candidate moves. I tried it and I'm just getting annoyed by oponent not caring and playing blitz fast. I want relax and then play real good you know. It's a game of two heads, the one getting more annoyed or without ideas is going to end up loosing 99% of the time.

I've beat myself learning this and that and I can basicly use maximum 20% of my knowladge at this 1200 level. That's where it comes the memory patterns, to strenghten them playing every single micro plan dozzens of times to death and similar peace setups where you're in new teritory in your of ease of mind.

Anything under 900 is literally not forgeting your undefended peace. It's so hard to accept that when you're pumped with all this great information. Now, it's just about not falling for a tactic and making sure your peaces are active with goal of breaching point in mind at all times. 

So yea we learn as we move along and that's exactly why we're addicted to it, the progress, new levels, new challenges and new solutions.

if youre 2000 rated in daily and youve been playing for 4 days then youre cheating