How to reach 2000 (from 1900)

I don't have much to say about this 'cause my uscf rating is in the 700s (thoug my chess.com rating is much highter)

but try analizing your games and reconizing patterns in your play

to give you futher atvice It might help to know how you play (I mean like if you play offensive or defensive or you improvise)

hope it helps 

What books have you already read? Do you consider yourself weak in the opening, middlegame, endgame, tactics, planning, attacking, defending, positional play, over-the-board play, crochetting?

Give us something to go on.

I know where you are coming from,my highest USCF rating was in the low 1800's and i would like to get it to 2000. Since i am a good bit older then you ( 49 ) it will be harder for me. My study  habits have never been good but i am working on that. Just started going through Chess Tactics for advanced players by Yuri Averbakh, nice book i also found the 4 volume set of Chess opening Essentials helpful. I will be playing in a tourn. this weekend maybe the rating will go up.Good Luck on making it to Expert.

Disclaimer:  I'm not 2000 USCF  :)

Some players blast straight through to 2400, 2500, and beyond... ok very very few players do this.

But if you're plateauing under 2300 I've been told that you still have at least two major weaknesses in your game.  It may be openings, it may be attacks, it may be tactics.  The point is you lose to masters not because your analysis or calculation is particularly poor, but the 2300 rated player just has to wait for that element in which you're weak to show itself over the board.

So you need to be serious about filling any holes you may have in your understanding.  I'm willing to bet that if you spent a few hours a day on either Dvoretsky's endgame book or Vukovik's art of attack and stayed with it until you've thoroughly digested the book in it's entirety, that it would be at least worth 200 rating point.  The point it this may take at least six months.

Maybe you've neglected your openings.  Get the open office (free) version of MS excel (spread sheet program) and an opening book.  Be serious about learning the opening you chose and building a repitour.  This does not mean memorizing moves.  Pick some lines out of the book you like, go to chessgames.com, and pull up some master games from those lines.  Analyze the entire game until the common variations (and more importantly themes/plans of the middle game) are second nature to you.  You'd be surprised how knowing a strong plan (even if it's not the best plan) can make winning a game much easier at the sub-master level.

Again this might take a few months working a few hours a day... but the old cliche you get out of it what you put into it rings true here.  Identifiy a hole and put forth some effort filling it. 

Unless you've spent the last 10 years working your butt off to reach your current level (1900), you're pretty much gurenteed improvement.