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What's the best rating improvement you've ever seen?

Looking for super ambitious players to answer a few questions:
1. How far can you get in one year?
2. Can we find a titled player that started playing on lichess before earning their title?
3. Which time control is best for improvement: classical, rapid, or blitz? (Bullet??)

thanks guys. may the search begin.
One year is a short period of time & I'm thinking you are speaking of over the board rating or just how strong one can get in one year . Personally myself I improved 1000 rating points in about Five years over the board rating many years ago . You must Study & Play Study & Play . Nowadays there are many ways to Study Chess so good luck or make your own luck but study please you seem ambitious. I will recommend one book on the endings by Mikhail Sherevesky to you called Endgame Strategy .
#1"How far can you get in one year?" If you know what you are doing, you can get extremely far, Probably 2200+.
#2 "Can we find a titled player that started playing on lichess before earning their title?" Yes, you CAN!
#3 "Which time control is best for improvement: classical, rapid, or blitz? (Bullet??)" Classical.
1- i think it depends on how strong you are currently,you can very well increase your rating by 500 points or so in a year if you are like 1600/1500,ofcourse it requires a lot of hardwork and time.but as you get higher and higher it becomes much harder to improve.
3-Classical is obviously the best time control for improvement,it gives you the most amount of time to think over your moves and it develops your thought process whereas speed chess (bullet and blitz) are gonna have a negative impact on your chess hence it is preferred to not play speed chess if you are looking to improve.
on chess.com i went 1100-1700 blitz in 1 year. i did zero studying and i played 100% of my games drunk and stoned. to be honest i could see someone becoming a 2200 national master in 1 year if they were talented and had perfect practice.

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