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Help Me Reach 2000!

it's possible .
My advice, do not try to cheat opponents
Do not try to win for time if what you want is to improve
First focus on improving and not earn more elo
i dont take time to think when playing blitz i just play logical moves whereas in puzzles i take some time calculating variations and finding best forcing moves.
Yes, I think you can do it. But it's a lot of hard work spent between focused study and analysis of your games and signing up and playing OTB tournament games. I think it's a low probability that you make it in the time frame that you set for yourself, but I do think it's possible.
The puzzles have an actual solution, so you can sit there until you see the move. After you find the move, you know you have the solution since it hits you like a tonne of bricks. Blitz doesn't have a solution, so I usually just try to setup all my pieces to attack the king, without blundering. I'm not even 1500 in blitz, and 2100 in the puzzle training.
This is an example why puzzles don't magically raise your rating. The reason is, puzzles only train your intuition. They don't teach you chess. I watch kind of regularly recently a 1600 lichess rated player. For several reasons.

1. He is kind of entertaining. Even when he is losing.

2. He's relatively new to the game. (Within 6-9 months)

3. He plays good music most of the time.

4. When he plays he makes attempts to find correct moves and he does it with book precision. Meaning, if I was to write a book based on common class player mistakes, he would be a prime example of someone who has common mistakes but is ready to bounce up 300 points. As opposed to someone who is making common mistakes but might be a life 1600 player. Some of the examples are glaring and some are hidden. I think this has been done. Like I think Silman and Pandolfini has done this. Also I think there is a book about master vs amateur that takes this route. A lot of these books are better than people think. And you simply spend more time with them than read them once and think you have it.

I look at puzzle training as a "Warm up/cool down". Where they help train intuition and they help maintain intuition. The real training is understanding the position.

Ever notice there are no books on "How to set up traps", but there are a lot of masters claim they "Set up traps". How do you think that happens? It's inside planning and thinking process. And that is what people need to work on in pretty much every level.

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