How was your game play after one year playing chess ?

@Callmeavictim "Trust" is a necessary component of any relationship and the survival of any group. Does that mean people don't breach that trust? Obviously not. And relationships, organizations and communities fail - irrespective of geography or historical period - because of it.

But there are many ways to undermine trust and "cheating" is not the only one. Creating and maintaining a sense of paranoia associated to "cheating behaviour" is another way to undermine the trust necessary to keep a community healthy. Stalinist USSR (think of the purges in the '30s, if nothing other), Nazi Germany (think of the purges against the brown-shirts, if nothing else) and Eisenhower's USA (think of the McCarthy witch-hunts) are notable examples of that destructive behaviour.

When "rules of civil discourse" are commonly and openly breached between members of a group or community, that is usually a pretty accurate harbinger that "mere words" as the accepted medium for social-exchange and problem-resolution are no longer considered sufficient or acceptable and more "muscular" methods are required and valued. Name-calling and dehumanizing an "idealogical" opponent is the simplest way to prepare the groundwork for steam-rolling over them with other devices, rhetorical or otherwise.

When you take "trust" out of the equation, people live in echo-chambers, are deaf and blind to any world-view or argument that doesn't fit into "accepted policy" and often become unwitting agents of self-fulfilling prophecies. Either the "trust" equilibrium is eventually restored and the relationship, group, community, etc. comes out the other side having evolved into a stronger and stabler entity or it is bankrupted and the relationship, group, etc. dies.

Seneca said its equally wrong to trust everyone asit is to trust no one. George Washington said trust only a select few, and only after they have proven themselves. Schopenhauer said what your enemy should not know, dont tell your friend.

Pulitzer sid there is no vice, no crime, no evil deed that does not love anonymity .

Fielding said you should not go to a doctor without knowing his favoritrdiagnose . Streseman said there is only one way to share everything fairly, one guy makes the portions and the other guy chooses. Balzac said who talks much will at the end believe what he says.

Lol, this thread is too funny from post 3. ( you train or you use engine). :)

2200 became from 1200, basically blunder is deep rooted in human mind. From one research they noticed that " both higher rated and lower rated players blunder in unfamiliar positions but the former one blunder less in more familiar positions".

To get higher rating,
1. Familiarize with thousand of patterns ( X ray, forks, threats on unprotected pieces etc)- basically tactics. You can train with tactics training/ bullet/blitz or classical/ OTB.
2. Confidence in accessing the position ( positional analysis). Usually attained by playing longer game, reviewing / analysing games or home preparation/ practice of opening/ endgames.

Also keep in mind for evil to prosper its enough for good people to do nothing.

Don't know how this took off on a tangent (or hyperbola) about cheating and trust and so on. Answering your original question, my progress was about same as yours after one year. I went to my first big -- statewide, five round -- tournament after a year, convinced I was going to kick ass. Instead, I went home depressed with one half point.
Let me warn you about the next phase, for me. I was determined to stop my blunders. For a year I focused on it, no oversights, no hanging pieces --- and it worked. I played blunder-free chess and lost almost every game by losing one pawn and being ground down in an endgame. To me, that was even more frustrating. So I took up gambits and risky lines, and messy chess turned out better for me.
It is a long hard climb. But one day soon you will play a game with ease and flair and realize you have learned something.

In one year, I went from
950 -> 1600
In the year following that I went from
1600 -> 1900
This is all blitz. Rapid, not so good :) Bullet is a little nicer

@Callmeavictim

Fred Flinstone said: "Yabadabadoo"
Scooby doo said: "Scooby dooby doo"
The Walrus said: "Goo goo g'joob"

We can learn a lot from those three under appreciated thinkers.

;D

Sparower because someone said trust me, that person destroyed my life. I would have learned chinese and japanese by now, studied. Lived at places litaiwan, tokyo, london and zurich. Now i live in poverty, my life is hell. All i can afford chess, and because depression i cant even play on patzer level or sleep. Andwhen i hear trust people, that probabl was said by someone that wants you trust bs books or videos. No they have no interest they just want someone else get richer. Which is pathetic, the fishes come anyway because they are fishes, not because the halfwits are worthy of a marketin award.