800 tactical problems on chesstempo, totalling around 27 hours brought me from 1500 to 1950 on there. I did use other training methods in between though, and I can't check my fide estimate on that site as I have no premium membership. Sadly I cannot compare it with my real rating either, since I don't have one.
How many hours of tactics will get me to ELO 2000 ?
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Thanks for the input, 450 poits sounds like a decent progress. Did you notice a similar increase in other ratings, such as a the blitz or online rating here ?
Everyone starts at 1500 on chesstempo so this graph is not necessarily an indicator of improvement but merely that you did problems and got points for them, bringing the default rating assigned to you up to the level you were already at when you joined.
No doubt that doing tactical problems will raise your ELO, but to look at this graph and think you gained 450 ELO points by doing 27 hours of tactics problems is wrong.
When I started on chess.com I was mid 1200's USCF and about the same here. I have logged 60 hours on TT and have completed 40% of chess mentor as well as watched several videos and done other study. Now I am about 300 pts higher here, but I have stopped playing OTB. I found the majority of my increase came when I increased my TT work, but I don't think you can only do that. Also I imagine that I am going to get more benefit from tactics at my level than you will at yours. When I ventured into the 1600's and started playing 1700's I noticed it was a whole different animal. I'm guessing that is the point to maybe start learning openings.
Hi fellas, from what I heard doing tactical puzzles is the best way to improve in chess.
Currently I do a bit of endgame (schereschewski and dvoretzki's university) and occasionally looking up some lines for my openings (1.b3 / 1. ...b6 on everything).
The big rest of my chess training time goes to tactics (trying to solve them by using the regular thinking process of calculation, to imitate gameplay).
Now the question: How many hours of tactics (counting only the pure solving time, like in the chesstempo statistics) does it take to get my strenght from FIDE ELO 1730 to 2000 ?
Any idea how much lets say 1000 tactical puzzles (that take 2-5 minutes in average to solve) are worth in FIDE ELO points, when the player is in the range of 1400-2200 ELO ? Or 100 hours of pure tactics solving ?