0 respect to both 1700 and your goal of 2000.They all play lousy moves and hang pieces as beginners, though the frequency is decreasing from frequently to less frequently. ( myself is being 2000 though). And I have 'zero OTB rating' though being 2000+ in here.
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Michael Jordan kept perennial HOF NBA players from securing a championship, but that shouldn’t diminish their legacies. It just means Jordan was in the top 1% of NBA players.
But there is certainly something to be said for the top 5%.
A lot. You are almost a Master.
yes
"It's just Blitz!!" - My OTB is 1728 but I am yet to break 1700 blitz on this site.
98%ile? at 1700+ so LOL is 900+ 50%ile. What a joke.
I’m way late to this but dude hasn’t even cracked 1500, my average accuracy in 3 minute blitz hovers around 80%+. It’s not hard to learn a system opening and just wait for your opponent to make an off book mistake if you play the same system thousands of times.
The respect you'd get would vary too much depending on your age, your country, your social group etc. Some countries are very into chess. Like Russia, Usa, India, China etc. Almost half of the total countries in the world don't even have GM's, some have just 1 or 2 GM's on the whole country. Like if you look at Japan, they don't have any GM's, just 3 IM's. You would be like top 100 player in the country if you had like 1750 rating. But even for the world generally, you'd be considered good club player.
But depending on your age, you might never become a GM or IM. Even many IM's who plays for years never able to reach to GM level. So that's another story. You can easily say an IM, had spent years for chess, read lots of chess books, most likely trained with pro's, had coaches on some points, been in tournaments lots of times, analysed lots of games. Yet again most of them can't reach GM level.
I'm around 1700s on Blitz and Rapid for years. I just play to kill time. Already I'm 38 years old. Never read a chess book or study opennings. And for the like last 5 years, I'm around 1700s on Blitz and Rapid. But bullet is another story. I'm like 1300s on bullet. Sometimes in just one or two days I drop to like 1100s. Then slowly reach up to 1300s again. So I guess thats the difference between who knows opennings, had study some opennings and who acts like seeing all the positions just like new, and have to think from just 1st move.
Always wanted to reach this milestone
I have massive respect for 2000 player
Jeez, a lot of jerks in this topic.
Congrats on reaching 1700.
Lol, why lots of jerks? There were 8 people who showed their opinions, 2 people (including me) showed disrespect/ disagreed. Do you mean those 2 people are jerks cos they disagreed?
I think he meant that you were a jerk because you were being a jerk, but maybe I misunderstood him.
Protip: next time don't be a jerk.