How to get to a 1500 rating in rapid?

In the game you should start the moves with 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 Qh5 or 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Bc5

You should do up to 400 puzzles every day

Probably a plan which will work well for you involves (1) stop hanging pieces, (2) start taking free pieces, (3) stop worrying so much about your rating ...

For most of the past year, I've floated between 1500 and 1600. There are plenty of stronger chess players who've already given advice. What I can bring to the table here is concise, realistic advice that's worked for me.

1. Try to play mostly 15-min time controls or longer. Stay away from blitz, bullet, and the variants.
2. Analyze your losses with Lichess; don't spend any time analyzing your wins.
3. Don't spend a lot of time learning openings. Just make sure you know a solid response (the first 3 or 4 moves) to common White openings and have a few solid openings (the first 3 or 4 moves) you can respond with as Black.
4. Practice with puzzles. Contrary to what people are advising here, you don't need to play hundreds and hundreds of puzzles a day (WTF?). 10 minutes of puzzles a day, plus two 15-minutes games, is enough to make real progress.
5. While doing all of the above, keep it fun and if you feel yourself getting tired of it, don't hesitate to take a break for a few days. Avoid mindless or lazy play; it's a bad habit.

That's it. Good luck!

You are improving though? You went from 1250 to 1450 in two months. That's actually massive.

Right click → Inspect → <strong>1500</strong>

Good luck! :)

Create a new account and you'll get 1500 rating. XD

Just play a lot more games and get a basic handle on your openings. I've gotten stuck at like 1800-1900 for a year, my advice to not get stuck so long is to play openings that are practical for your actual level, not dreaming of being a super GM, and go for breadth instead of depth. Don't learn boring stuff like London, Russian, Berlin etc., play sound openings that are solid enough (e.g. don't do Benoni and Alekhine, you can add those on much later) but ones that reward preparation with lots of easy wins. Go for French, Najdorf, Smith-Morra, Center Game, Blumenfeld etc. If you play just ultra-solid stuff then you will get stuck after a while, because those positions don't reward your improvement for a long time and require lots of endgame knowledge.

The previous poster made it sound like becoming 1500 is akin to running through hell fire but in all honesty you do not need anything crazy. While I would recommend doing as many puzzles as you can stand as that seems to be the weak point in your games. Do about 50 or so puzzles a day making sure you go back through and look at why, if you got it wrong, your move loses and then look at why the solution wins. This is key, if you don't do this puzzles become fairly worthless. Guessing does not help your chess, understanding the moves does.

In terms of openings for black I would recommend learning maybe 4 moves of the sicillian and the general ideas and rolling with it. I really wouldn't spend much time worrying about it.

I also disagree with (@)Sacmaniac in the fact that a 1500 does not need to know complicated endgames nor rook vs rook positions as, in my personal experience, it is not essential that I myself know them as a 1950ish player. Your time is better spent doing puzzles as they will help your calculation skills which will carry to the endgame. That said, you should know all the basic mates (excluding knight and bishop) including rook, queen, and 2 bishops mates.

Chess 960 is just a waste of time as it relies on a strong understanding of where pieces should go which you seem to not yet understand fully and learning a few moves of theory is not the end of the world.

Finally make sure you look at your games and use the learn from your mistakes button as it forces you to try the move again and lets you see if you lack an understanding of the plans in the position which can be improved by looking at the engine lines.

by observing the position
sounds easy but even I make misstakes by simply not looking at the board properly by focusing too much on a single thing