How do you get your rating over 2000?

How do people get their rating over 2000?

how come some people spend years playing but never get their rating over 1200?

they don't have a coach,yet i gained 200+ points cause of my coach

why can't i just keep playing to get my rating up ?

i don't understand why i need a coach and what a coach is going to tell

me

that costs money

a coach can look at your games,point out your mistakes,strengths and weaknesses...based on that can build you an opening repertoire tell you exactly what you should work on...if i had the cash i would have gotten a coach a long time ago :)

alternatively you could join learning group...its free and we try to help you as much as possible :)

https://www.chess.com/groups/home/tooters

also if you join the group join this daily tournament

https://www.chess.com/tournament/potato-open-chess-tournamentall-are-welcome

we can look at your games afterwards and annotate them for you so you can see why your mistakes were mistakes...our forums are full of master games annotations to help you understand the moves better:)

1400136896,you are also welcome to join both

I think to get to 2000 you have to improve mainly at tactics and calculating variations. Most lower rated players don't have the tactical sense to see critical ideas/moves in a position and then don't invest the time into calculating the relevant the variations that could arise as accurately as possible. The positional ideas are important as well, but the positional knowledge you need to get to 2000 won't be that complicated.

Pretty simple really, win some games and your rating will go up. 

dont you 2 strooooooooooong players also want to join the tournament

You don't need a coach if you are willing to spend time studying by yourself.

A coach can be useful and help you accelerate the process, but you can reach 2000 just by yourself, but you gotta put in the time.

I reached 2000 without doing anything, I started playing when I was little, never really studied chess, just played for the fun of it, went to some tournaments and I reached 2000 without any help or anything... However it did take me 13 years, but if you study it will take significantly less time than that.. It's all about how much time you're willing to put in.

i just play blitz and my rating keeps going up

Why there are people who play for years and do not improve? 

Because they are just playing for fun and they are not learning anything. Every game, they make basically the same things. 

To improve you have to study, not just play. If you only play games the only thing you are doing is reinforcing bad habits, you are learning nothing new so obviously you will not progress. 

"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.
One isn’t better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not.
Of course, you can do both (long and fast games), ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

OP, don't kid me, you've got to go-at it harder - don't listen to billy or your nanny - just gore in.

Whatever it is you're doing, do something else.

chess might not be for you

go to chessable man.

Dear Coldgoat,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you.   Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you.  Good luck for your games!

This is a 4 year old post but...

People don't get better at chess for the same reason people don't get better at anything else. You have to identify your mistakes / weaknesses, then fix them.