how to raise my rating to 2000?

my standard chess rating is now 1420 .... i want some advices to raise it to 2000 .... i know i can do it but how :)

What makes you think you know that you can do it? I been playing forty years and can't do it.

IQ test 

If you're so smart, why even ask us for advice?

you can get some corrupt master friends to throw a ton of games.

lol ..... u are smart too .... don't worry 

One block at a time, focus on 1600 material then 1800. Each level has things you should know.

You aren't even trying. Sorry man.

fine .... what to do .... i started analyzing master games .... what also should i do ?

There's a HUGE difference between reaching a rating and reaching a skill level.

guesses are welcomed .... brain storming man :)

Buy the right books and STUDY, inter alia.  Simple enough ?

Chances are you still won't make it, unfortunately.

oh guys ... lets forget about IQ tests ... let's post our suggestions and we all will get benefit of that 

This is the equivalent of me asking, "how do i become a GM?" 

Hours of long tedious practice.

Years of tedious practice, and a touch of OCD helps too.

how many hours per day do you think is good to reach that goal ?

I'll bite.

I am 41 years old now. At 40, I had a rating of about 1500 USCF and decided that I wanted to improve it. Today after a tournament where I beat two experts (2000 rating), I improved my own rating to 1893. So, no, I am not a 2000 yet, but I've had several 2000 performances including today's near 2200 performance.

Here is what I have done to improve

* Play a lot of rated games. Games on chess.com are good, but I've found way too much cheating and too much griefing in standard time controls that I have given it up. Rated USCF games (or your own country's) is the way to go.

* Study every, every game that you play without a computer. Evaluate what you think the score of the game is critical parts (like, I think I am up 1.5 pawns). Work it hard on your own first. Then when done evaluate on a computer and see what the computer thinks. If dramatically different, investigate

* Tactics - Chesstempo.com is the best tactis place. For three months strainght I did 7-10 tactics a day as a minimum. Over that three monthy period I got a total of 825 tactics in. It was brutal, and I didn't just play from the gut but try to calculate the lines.

* Openings - I didn't memorize every line, but studied the openings I played and repeated them using Chess Position Trainer until I didn't have to think about my repetoir

* Studied middle games with several books including Silman's Re-evaluate Your Chess

* Studied end games hard with a partner over skype and independently. I used Silman's endgame book and several other books. I have salvaged games I should have lost against stronger players because I knew how to get to drawn positions.

There is more, but the about is probably 90% of my effort over the past year. Recently I have added my own variation of guess-the-move against GM games. Wehn you hit 1800 I will talk about that more :)

And I played a lot of blitz and studied every game. I don't play here any longer as people were looking up my games for OTB tournaments.

For every 5-2 game, I would probably spend 20 minutes studying it to make sure I was playing the opening properly and for errors in judgement. I recently gave up blitz altogether as I think I ended its usefulness (for now).

And for OTB games, I usually play G/30. If I don't spend at least three hours on each game it is only because some games' results are due to an early blunder.

If you are not willing to put in the time studying your own games and studying them without the computer crutch, forget about 2000.

EricFleet thank you ..... i really appreciate these words