RoadMap for achieving 2000 Elo rating in 1 year

The plan is better than no plan at all.

So what If you don't reach 2000?

What if you do improve some?

I just embarked on a plan to use "Time" a minimum two of days on a three day move chess match.

The focus is to avoid blunders and weak moves.

I write down each move that I could use.

Decide on the best move and try to find a better one.

I flip the board around and look for the opponents best move against me.

Once I'm satisfied I don't  before press the "SUBMIT" button until after two days. 

On some moves I feel funny waiting for TIME to pass before submitting my move.

When I see what his response is, I'm not surprised as to the move because I probably have already have looked at that one.

Sometimes though the opponent makes I move that I have not even considered. Next move I take longer.

I think the OP forgot the step "make sure you do not have a girlfriend."

The best post yet!

I know how I eventually made 2000, but it took me 12.5 years, not too helpful for most...

Right Jamie.  Well, he could date one of the Polgar sisters. 

   Emphasis on 'discipline yourself' to read chess books SLOWLY, while playing them on an actual board. . . and I like DenverHigh's, "Always look for a better move"  There very often IS one, more than the one you see first.

As for reaching 2000 OTB rating in one year (assuming no prior competition experience), I think this is extremely rare, to say the least. My guessestimate would be less than 1 out 1000 rated players achieve this.

Yeah, WAY less than 1 in a 1000.  Strong drive AND very high IQ needed, for less than a year.  I think the OP was just dreaming a little and setting a high goal for himself. (which is admirable)

I wonder how long it took Bobby Fischer to go from 1200 to 2000?

Actually, even very strong (titled players) probably didn't achieve 2000 after one year, as most of them started playing competitive chess as kids

Okay Joey.  I just did some research and it said Bobby had a postal rating of about 1200 in early Jan. of 1955, age 12.  Then in early 1956, he earned a USCF rating of 2157.  So wow!  He may have gone from 1200 to 2100+ in one year. http://www.chess.com/article/view/biography-of-bobby-fischer   Course this is Bobby Fischer! 

More likely 1200 wasn't an accurate rating.

Anyway, I wouldn't be shocked if you tell me that Bobby Fischer DID achieve a rating of 2157 after one year... Still not easy for everybody

@davy willaims

You understood what I am trying to say. I am not bluffing here by saying "practice your ass off for 1 year until you get to 2000". I have properly laid out what to study.  Playin chess a lot simply wont give anyone the right moves. An amateur wont make the same moves as a GM even if he thinks for a month. You need the right knowledge to make right moves.

Btw, silmans books are good. I have another suggestion,use the latest chessmaster tutorials. Josh waitzkins tutorials are awesome. And I use fritz interface with Houdini for all my analysis. I still believe one hour of study each day plus one hour of practice will do it for anyone. 

@JoeyandScott.  I agree with you, probably a postal rating wasn't too accurate - just saying that a rise to 2000 from 1200 is extremely, extremely rare, only a Fischer or Kasparov could do, with LOTS (make that close to 8 hrs a day) could do.  Hicetnunc knows what he's talking about.

   I read somewhere, that if you studied your a$$ off, with great instruction, and you had a high IQ, you could make 2000 in 3 years. 

No need for insults, guys...

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lol, name is A civilized gentle man. Have 3 vodkas and see if we can get this guy to 2000, AcivilizedGentleman.

 Personally, I hope to go from 900 to 1600-1700 in one year and am thinking of getting a coach.   I've got 6.5 months to go.   

Ok, here is what I would do if I wanted to go from beginner to 2000 in a year if I knowing what I do now: First, learn the rules and completely understand them in a week or less, including algebraic and descriptive notation. Don't play yet. Solve all of the Mate in 1 puzzles in Ivaschenko's Chess School 1a. Play through LIGHTLY annotated games of Morphy where he faced decent opponents. The games should be 25 moves or less. Then solve the Mate in 2 puzzles in Chess School 1a. The Mate in 1/Mate in 2 total about 400 problems. Now go on the internet and play some 30-minute games against a computer rated 1400 or so. Analyze the games YOURSELF without a coach or an engine. Now get a basic 1.e4 opening repertoire book and study some simple lines, no more than 10 moves, and explanations. Play 5-10 more games against a computer and analyze in the same fashion.

That might get you to 1400.

Next, get a simple 1...e5 repertoire book for Black study some simple lines.

Practice against a computer like before.

Purchase ChessBase 11 and learn how to use it. Purchase Houdini 2.0.

Enter an Under 1600 rated tournament. Enter the games into ChessBase and analyze the games yourself, checking the openings, and then check with Houdini.

Now get a simple repertoire book on the King's Indian Defense, learn the ideas of the Classical Variation ad study some games, starting with the classics from 1953. In fact, getting Brontein's Zurich 1953 and studying it would be a good idea.

Now you need to enter as many tournaments as possible, analyzing your games (first yourself, then with Houdini in ChessBase).

Continue studying you three opening books and working through Chess School 1a and 1b.

Study Chess School 4 by Sarhan Guliev

Continue to play tournaments and analyze.

After finishing Chess School 1a and 1b, get Chess School 2 and do that.

After finishing Chess School 4 (endgames) study Shereshevshy's Endgame Strategy.

I believe this kind of preparation will give you a slight chance of reaching the goal. You don't need to focus on middlegames much, and you certainly don't need Silman. Good luck.