Just hit 2000 blitz rating today!

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I've never been a hard worker tbh. I just had a lot of talent.

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super108 wrote:

Haha, I was looking at all these comments and reconsidered myself being a good chess player, lol. I think if you put the effort into chess, you can do it. In like 3 months I came from around 300 I came to around 1000 blitz. I thought you can become an FM or GM or something in a few years, right? Okay, well it depends on how much time you put in every day I guess. 

Good is relative. 1000 rating means you can crush most casual players. Like if you play some random guy on the street or at a family gathering, you'll probably destroy them. So I think 1000 is a good rating. You're leaving the beginner category and entering the intermediate category.

Unfortunately, you'll find that your improvement slows down a lot as you reach higher ratings. Like it takes more time to to from 1500 to 2000 rating as it does from 500 to 1000 rating. So being able to go from 300 to 1000 rating in 3 months, whilst still a pretty good achievement, doesn't mean you'll be able to hit master level (or especially grandmaster level) in just a few years.

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@Deranged

Nice my fellow member, onwards and forwards! It is nice to know you have reached 2000, definitley a nice feat in the chess world!

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Congratulations! keep the good work.
I'm currently in my 1600s and I hope to crack the 2000 before the end of the year.

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Deranged wrote:

I finally did it, after years of trying. I'm so happy! Kind of in shock too.

This is the game that got me there: https://www.chess.com/live/game/5406124422

For a while, I really felt like a hit a brick wall. I just wasn't improving. I was playing heaps, watching videos, training tactics puzzles, learning endgame theory, learning openings, etc. But I wasn't seeing results. And it was so frustrating.

Then one day, out of nowhere, I started going on a bit of a winning streak. It's like everything suddenly started to click in my brain. I was blundering less and my intuition was just correct way more often. And this continued for a few days, until today.

It's weird how fast it happened. Like I made no progress for months, then suddenly I just jumped up to a new peak, when I least expected it.

I think I've improved basically every aspect of my game since I was about 1700 rating, but the two biggest things were probably endgames and tactics. Studying endgames by watching lots of YouTube videos and training tactics by solving lots of puzzles on this site made the biggest difference imo.

Anyway, I'm going to take a break from blitz games for a while, since I've achieved my goal now. I'll play a bunch of rapid games instead. They're meant to be better for improvement anyway.

Feels good to be 2000 now.

 

Congrats! Recently I also jumped from 1300 to 1500 and still rising!

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i am also improving just check my profile you will understand and i am self learned so taking some time

 

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krazeechess wrote:

lol i just reached 1400 blitz. i am better at classical chess time format like G90. i am improving at shorter time formats also though. i have around 80 point blitz gain in last 30 days

i Hve nearly 280 increse in blitz rating in last 10 days

 

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Aser_Gawad wrote:

Congratulations! keep the good work.
I'm currently in my 1600s and I hope to crack the 2000 before the end of the year.

Thank you!

Not to bring your hopes down, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll go from 1600 to 2000 in just 4 months.

But if you work hard, you can probably hit 1800 by the end of this year, and 2000 by the end of next year.

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Congrats!!! Wish you raise up your rating and maximize it  wink.png

 

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Deranged wrote:
Aser_Gawad wrote:

Congratulations! keep the good work.
I'm currently in my 1600s and I hope to crack the 2000 before the end of the year.

Thank you!

Not to bring your hopes down, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll go from 1600 to 2000 in just 4 months.

But if you work hard, you can probably hit 1800 by the end of this year, and 2000 by the end of next year.

 

I know it's a big challenge, but a friend of mine actually did it.

If I reached 2000 by the end of the year, that would be awesome, and if I didn't it won't be the end of the world.

at least I will not lose anything trying

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Me too! Just hit 2k blitz today! SO HAPPY!

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How do I get better at Blitz?

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Congrats dude that's awesome! Hoping to join you one day haha