one year rating increase?

I went from 900s to 1500s in less than a year

If you are low rated player it's possible to raise your rating in single tournament with couple hundred points. I plaied 9 rounds tournament in my home country. I got 3 wins and 2 draws. My elo was 1550 before the tournament and it raised 100 points. If I'de had one win more it would have been raised 150 points. So it's very possible to raise your points quickly but when you are on the certain level it becomes slower. So if you have rating over 2000 it's not possible to have so big raise in your rating

Because of the competitive nature of ratings, everyone's can't go up. You have to learn faster than others, or have been playing chess longer than others in order for yours to go up. As more people play computers and read books before getting their initial ratings, your rating will be pulled down. If many newbies go out and get rated before being trained, your rating will be inflated. The general trend though is that you have to know a lot more these days to hold on to a class B rating. The  top GM ratings have not gone up much in the last 30 years because the lower rated people know so much. I think what we do see however is a lot more people rated around 700. USCF actually has classes F, G, H, I, and J.

And even if you have a high rating, people outside the chess world will not care. There is always more to learn no matter what you know, and there is always someone or something that can beat you no matter how high you get. What matters is that you are having fun and challenging your brain. For that reason, I don't know if it is good to study 3 hours per day, unless  you actually don't have anything else you'd prefer to do.

For me, chess is a guaranteed source of fun any time my joints start hurting to the point I I can't hike or do other fun stuff. I own about 25 chess books. If I master them all today, I won't have any left to work through, and will have to buy more. But since I've not mastered them, they are always there as a source of fun when I need them.

I looked into tournaments, and you don't make much money there at all. You'd make more by working, unless you are a grand master or an industrious master.

Yeah, 400 points is something I have never seen.  My peers (some young IMs, some older 1200-level club players) have marvelled at my 200+ point jumps in USCF rating, which occurred in two consecutive years.  Among the adults, it seems 50 points can be hard to come by in a year...or breaking even, for that matter .

Wait...viewing some folks' responses, I should double check: we are talking about USCF and FIDE ratings, not chess.com ratings, right?

Blatent lie,you are member since 2009, and you bluff it as one year growth. ( manic and sure no depression!! ).

Kupov3 wrote:

I went from 950-1800 (give or take 50) in just over a year. Needless to say I don't expect to see the same level of improvement continue.

i jumped from 800 to 1700 in less than a year

I only have less than a year of experience in Chess and I increased from 600 to 1100 rating

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Interesting to see the people who have not really improved much from their early gains several years ago. I have a modest goal of 1200 this year. I am at 1000 ish now. I have several more months to go. I am not really happy with my play right now. I still feel like I never have a good plan like I am supposed to when I play.

 If you bought bitcoin instead of playing chess this year, you would have retired.

My first ever USCF game i beat a expert and at the end of the tournament I was rated class A. [US Open. Omaha 1959]

But obviously even though i had never played in an over the board tournament--i was already the strength of a Class A player.

So, if someone on chess.com says he started with a 1200 rating--that does not really mean he was 1200 strength. He could be anywhere from 500 strength to 2000 strength.  

Wow yall are kicking ass, I have been playing "consistently" for two years and have only seen a 100 rating increase per year. My goal is too reach 1200 in blitz and only need 2 more wins to achieve it!

I started playing chess about a year ago on chess.com. My rating hit an extreme minima at about 700 and I'm now approaching 1300. Dont know if the difficulty of increasing your rating also increases as you go through the ranks though.

I'm now 14 years old and I started to take chess seriously about a year ago. I now have an international rating of about 1100, and I am in my school's chess team. I am able to play 20 tournaments games a year with the team and I also participated in few tournaments. I am lucky enough to have a good chess coach for the team (he is a FM and has experience at teaching) I also play online on a daily basis. My goal is to become a Candidate Master or Fide Master in less than 5 years. Can I achieve this goal and how ?