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beksatibek
Hello guys, recently I got to 1500 in rapid on chess.com. Now my main goal for the next 2 years is to get to 2000 rapid. I got to 1500 by watching YouTube videos of Daniel Narodytsky, NM Robert Ramirez and others. What do you think my main plan should be to get to 2000 within the next 2-3 years. That’s my ultimate goal, after that I will probably stop playing.
shadow1414
  • Play & analyze 2–3 15+10 games daily.
  • Take a long break when stuck.
  • Keep watching YouTubers.
  • Do daily physical exercise.
beksatibek
Thanks👍🏻
Ice

Minimize blunders/mistakes in your games is probably number one. Get better at understanding how to attack in different positions. Once you get to around 1800 , focus more on understanding strategy and refining your openings. At 1950+, really focus on developing your tactical abilities and know how to mix in strategy . Tactics are important at nearly every level and will always improve your rating if developed.

TheNumberTwenty

Study more than you play. I'm about to hit that goal myself and the best thing I've been doing is trying to only play a few games a day max and learning from every game. Don't tilt away your rating points.

KeSetoKaiba
beksatibek wrote:
Hello guys, recently I got to 1500 in rapid on chess.com. Now my main goal for the next 2 years is to get to 2000 rapid. I got to 1500 by watching YouTube videos of Daniel Narodytsky, NM Robert Ramirez and others. What do you think my main plan should be to get to 2000 within the next 2-3 years. That’s my ultimate goal, after that I will probably stop playing.

I'm all for improvement (and I realize different people increase rating at different rated based on how much or little time they invest for chess), but 1500 to 2000 rating seems really unlikely in just 2 years; 3 is more likely, but even still it is statistically not in your favor. Don't let this discourage you though; it is possible! happy.png

I say this because rating is much tougher to gain as the chess player becomes higher rated (tougher opponents, smaller margin for error and simply by the way the math of the rating system works etc.) It took me about one year to reach 1500 and about 4.5 years of work to finally become 2000+ chess.com rapid rating (have since dropped below it again but I was over 2000 for roughly a month of solidly keeping over 2000)

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/today-is-the-day-2000-rapid 

Luckily for you, the process of improvement is still the same - keep learning, keep implementing newer concepts into your games, constantly analyze your own games to prevent from repeating the same mistakes and so on. 

Best of luck on your chess journey @beksatibek happy.png

TheNumberTwenty

I think 1500 to 2000 in 2 years or less is a reasonable goal if he works hard for it, especially if he's a younger guy. Depends how long it took him to get to 1500

KeSetoKaiba
TheNumberTwenty wrote:

I think 1500 to 2000 in 2 years or less is a reasonable goal if he works hard for it, especially if he's a younger guy. Depends how long it took him to get to 1500

Yes, of course it is possible with a lot of work/time invested/ability. I don't want to discourage them at all. I'm simply highlighting how much tougher rating is to increase the higher the ratings become; even 1500 most players never reach, so at least they have that going for them in their favor happy.png

beksatibek
I’m 24. Thank you guys, it took me less than a year to get to 1500, but sometimes I never play, sometimes I play a lot of games in one day and often I don’t analyse my games, or analyse them not very deeply. So I think I have a room for improvement, i feel like I should be more consistent and analyse my games deeply. I wanna get to 2000, even if it will take me 5 years.
NMRhino
What do you mean 1500-2000 in 2 years is not realistic? I got to 1950 in just 10 months.
KeSetoKaiba
beksatibek wrote:
I’m 24. Thank you guys, it took me less than a year to get to 1500, but sometimes I never play, sometimes I play a lot of games in one day and often I don’t analyse my games, or analyse them not very deeply. So I think I have a room for improvement, i feel like I should be more consistent and analyse my games deeply. I wanna get to 2000, even if it will take me 5 years.

Well then it is certainly possible and you might have a good chance. I recently completed 5 years on chess.com and I will say that time flies grin.png

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/5-years-of-chess 

KeSetoKaiba
NMRhino wrote:
What do you mean 1500-2000 in 2 years is not realistic? I got to 1950 in just 10 months.

That's awesome, but 1950 in under a year is VERY uncommon. This isn't to say you are necessarily a chess prodigy (although you might be!), but most people never even reach 1500...ever. Reaching over 1900 under even 3 years is rare (although not unheard of).

If you don't mind me asking, why do you think you reached that rating so quickly @NMRhino ? Perhaps we can all learn from something that you did, because chess improvement generally takes MUCH longer than this.