What should my elo be after playing for 2 years (1400 games in total)

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I've been playing chess seriously for a little over 2 years , im my rapid rating is around 1100 and i've played aa total of 1400 games.

I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more.

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LeafPlayzChess wrote:

I've been playing chess seriously for a little over 2 years , im my rapid rating is around 1100 and i've played aa total of 1400 games.

I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more.

There is no time schedule rating development path. 

However, I do see that you haven't taken any of the lessons here and you have only done a few puzzles.

What are you doing to improve?

 

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"my rapid rating is around 1100"
++ A rating of 1100 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. Hang no pieces, hang no pawns and you are 1500. Sit on your hands.

"I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more."
++ 200 hours of doing the right thing suffices to reach 2000.
"Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving." - Lasker
'on par with a master' means: such that the master cannot give odds, i.e. about 2000.

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justbefair wrote:
LeafPlayzChess wrote:

I've been playing chess seriously for a little over 2 years , im my rapid rating is around 1100 and i've played aa total of 1400 games.

I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more.

There is no time schedule rating development path. 

However, I do see that you haven't taken any of the lessons here and you have only done a few puzzles.

What are you doing to improve?

I'm just playing games from time to time , i dont do anything else

 

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I believe that after someone plays chess for 2 years they are playing at an elo that reflects their ability, whatever that may be. I do not believe people with the rarest of exceptions make huge elo jumps after 2 years of playing.

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tygxc wrote:

#1

"my rapid rating is around 1100"
++ A rating of 1100 is a sign of frequent blunders. Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it. Hang no pieces, hang no pawns and you are 1500. Sit on your hands.

im almost 1500 and i get accuracys in the 70s and 80s often but make a lot of mistakes. just dont blunder and you will get better.

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Try to learn from your common mistakes. Im just a 800/900 player but trying to learn everyday. Slowly but surely im climbing. I started with openings but everyone in the chessclub says that the best thing to learn is patterns/tactics.

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"Elo", or GlickoRD, or any of the other ratings, don't measure how long you've played. All they indicate is your playing strength *within a given pool of players*, at a specific time control. So, if I'm 1150 in rapid, that means I should win about half my rapid games against other 1150s. That's all it means.

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LeafPlayzChess wrote:

I've been playing chess seriously for a little over 2 years , im my rapid rating is around 1100 and i've played aa total of 1400 games.

I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more.

i've been playing for less, improved a little bit and played 7000 games lol

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Grimm_Stone wrote:
LeafPlayzChess wrote:

I've been playing chess seriously for a little over 2 years , im my rapid rating is around 1100 and i've played aa total of 1400 games.
I saw some people getting 1800 pts and was wondering if i should just give up trying to reach higher and just enjoying the game more.

i've been playing for less, improved a little bit and played 7000 games lol

Only difference is that you play bullet and he plays rapid.

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i touched 2000 about 5 yr ago.

imo blitz is much harder since covid. lot of people stopped working much and hanging around on the computer trying to get good at games, chess being one.

i think 2000 is simply out of reach for me, as someone who just plays a few games every now and then. its much more competitive now sadly, too many with too much time to spare getting good
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1500 is probably good progress for 1 yr? Idk