How I improved my rating from 1000 to 1500+ in 12 months

Matan, I think you did well with this tread. A lot of fine trainingideas are popping up here, such as watching the best players in 3/0= games,(or maybe at longer timecontrols).

The best player in my club, IM Johan Salomon, went from 1900 to 2300 in a year when he played a lot of big tournaments all over Europe. A very important part of it was that he was watching other good games in the tournaments.

You, me and Equiv is roughly on the same level. For me it was necessarry to do some serious rehearsing work to get here, and I think we are doing very fine. Maybe harder work is required for me, that is over 50 years old.

Starting nearly from scratch at the age of 31, I've had to work pretty hard to develop my game to where it is now.  I still make silly mistakes and struggle to remember information that I've reviewed again and again, but I'm happy with my improvement so far.  It's slow, but steady.

As far as the groups go ,i Just accept the spam requests . Also i have beenover 1500 for awhile if you look at the stats , as the "jump" is because they boosted the rating awhile back . Getting to 1500 was mainly just playing and tactics trainer etc was after reaching "1500" 

lets see if that works on me...

Clearly, pictures are worth a thousand words. At least I don't have to argue with you.

And this is for your second acc.

Your last name has to be Kardashian...you make everything about you.

Its not a rating comparison.  The guy is all over these posts, bragging about himself.  That is why i posted the kardashian reference. 

Agreed online rating is meaningless.

one of the only reasons you reached 1500 is because you started a new account. when you are new you have big rating jumps

First of all, I want to say that your rate of improvement is impressive.  However, your claim that it is from "just playing" is impossible to believe.  More evidence that leads me to say this is the many forum threads you have started asking for help analysing games, and study advice.  In April of 2014 when you were rated 800 in Live Standard you stated in one of these threads that you had been watching youtube videos, reading "Amateur's Mind" by Silman, and even had a coach.

Your desire to improve, and the work you have put into it is commendable and is paying dividends.  I don't understand why you deny it.  I'm taking issue with your claim because others working hard to improve, like you and I are, may see your claim, develop false expectations, and become discouraged.

I never say that other things wont help improve , but I notice that whenever my gains came it was when I was playing the most. And the coach only lasted about a week and was a friend who was about 1800 and i did not gain much from them. Amateurs mind I read about 8 pages of ,  the computer i had downloaded it to doesnt work anymore . I honestly dont feel that any of the other things i did really helped me but just confused me more with the extra information . Besides tactics and having others analyse games , i still stand by my point that I dont think you need study at all besides simple tactics(even without could work)  to reach 1500 rating  look at games of 1000 to 1400 and people routinely drop pieces , dont develop , etc , and this can still happen at the higher levels too . 

As a total novice, i probably am in no position to talk, but I can't imagine learning these traps is a good idea. In an engine, Halosar's trap goes from about +0.2 to -0.8 by move 5.. with the fishing pole trap, the result is worse by move 4.  This doesn't seem like a strategy to actually make someone better, but simply to boost one's ego by boosting a rating by beating people who are not very good.

I like how people get mad when I post numbers and diagrams on the internet.

No one is mad, people just get tired of your "All about me" posts, when no one asked about you.

marcomarco13 has a pretty good point. I have a very poor understanding of the theory behind chess many chess openings, but to make myself a better player I have started to figure out how to put myself (to some extent lol) in a better position for the endgames. Most importantly, I was preparing for a tournament, and I knew the thing I could improve the most efficiently is if i zoned in on one opening for white.

(e4 opening and mostly looked at the sicilian defense, philidor defense, and italian opening which led to the fried liver attack, Max Lange attack, and the Italian-Koltanowski Gambit)

This way for the tournament I could dictate half the games at least fairly well in the way I wanted -- and if people opened with e4 against me I had an idea of what to look out for. Gonna make people mad with another all about me post, but here's the catch: 1st of 50 ;)

Analyzing lost games every time you play should be a good way to improve fast.  Whenever you lose a game in chess.com, go back to it and check where you could have done better. Doing this habitually will guarantee continuous improvement. I would say having a notebook for this purpose helps even more, like improving your opening systems and writing down some 'theories' or 'new strategies' that you just learned, as examples. Continuous self-study is the key, and when you have a coach to guide you more it does speed up the improvement a whole lot more as he can directly answer your doubts, tell you immediately if your positinal judgement is right or wrong, and advice you the best ways on other great tools to use--like what books to study, training habits, etc...

Knowing opening theory isnt going to help if you dont even know opening princples.

lol never said i was good, but glad you care enough about talking shit to look through all my games haha.. get a life