Well, I am new to chess but I read it on medium that it requires a person atleast 5-6 months to achieve these ratings,but personally I think it depends from person to person.
What do you guys think?.
How hard is 1600 rating?
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As a 21-year-old, you should spend more time studying/reading than playing. Kids play lots of rapid and blitz games to get them motivated. However, you don’t learn very much from playing speed games against other beginners. So, study chess principles—openings, endings, middle game planning. As a motivated adult, you should be able to learn quickly and then be able to apply your learning in games.
several suggestions:
1. Analyze your losses. Don’t simply look at the game review, since that only shows individual moves and does not explain long-term plans.
2. Don’t try to memorize long opening sequences. Stick to general opening principles.
3. Play rapid or classical rather than blitz. Give yourself time to think.
4. Learn basic endgames. King and pawn endings. The principle of opposition. The strength of outside passed pawns. Rook activity.
as an adult, you can study and learn efficiently, so you will advance more rapidly than kids who are learning by trial and error from only playing blitz games.
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Sorry but your formula is not correct for chess elo points.
You are not considering that getting the highest elo rates in chess is exponentially more difficult the more you increase your rating. So, for example, the 200 elo points between 800-1000 points are more easy to achieve insead of 1000-1200 and so on.
Using your formula also means that if someone reach 2400 elo in (12-13k hours) can be a 4400 elo point in 24k hours! It doesnt work that way, unfortunately!
Lots of professianal chess players have spent so many hours to become IM, and probably the same ammount of hours to become GM. And also, some people, even if they study chess for their entire life, just cannot become GM (it depends on lots of factors... age and other things).
1600 elo points is a very easy reating to achieve. If you start as a child you can do it in just months or 1 year. Consider that IM Faustino Oro in just 2 years become IM, learning, playing and studyng 8 hours per day.
If you start as an adult you can achieve 1600 very soon, depending on how many hours you spend daily. It's very likely that in 1-5 years you can get it.
Reaching a 1600 rating is definitely an achievable goal, even if you’re starting at 21.
Hey, i started playing chess 18months ago, got 1600 elo today, played about 5000games with some puzzles and riddles.
After 6 months i got 1100, 12 months got 1300.
Just try hard and gl