@Sw0p said in #1:
> I just hit 1800 in just over two months.
There is a slight difference between Lichess rating and FIDE rating.
The difference consist in that Lichess rating is fake, useless, inflated and easy to balloon upwards or downwards.
FIDE is quite difficult to get a big number, so you will be somewhere 200-500 points below of what you have in lichess.
> By he end of this year I would like to be 1900, and next year 2100.
I do not know about that. I mean, if you can, good for you, but as you are a newcomer, you still dont understand how it works.
How it works its something like this. When you are new, you barely know how to move the pieces.
From knowing how to move the pieces to knowing how to develop them more accurately it is not a long lesson, its easy to learn, remember and apply, however, that small process will propel you like 200 rating points.
Every single basic thing you learn about chess will yield a lot of points rather quickly. So gaining points being a newcomer, you have no idea how easy is to do.
But eventually you will hit the wall. The basic knowledge will only get you so far.
For some, its 1500, for others 1800, for others 2000. But you will hit the wall.
After you hit the wall, you will have to train for months until you shed tears of blood just to gain mere 50 points of rating.
The higher you get, the more you have to train and the less rating increase you get. Eventually you will struggle just to keep the points you have.
> With my GM coach I am set to havea title before 21 (with continued time and effort)
Well, its a good thing you have a GM coach. only 1 in a million players or so has that chance. He will guide you and give you the best advice to further your level. Dont waste the chance. Still doesnt guarantee a thing, it all depends on you, if you have the capacity. But the odds are in your favor.
> So if you are complaining about your rating being under 1800, just remember.
> I learnt the game and reached 1800 in two months.
1800 lichess is not a high number. The level is about bottom half of a mediocre high school chess club.
My highest here I think was about 2050. Thats not even the level of a strong amateur. Its somehwere 1500-1600 FIDE.
I am not trying to diminish your accomplishments. Congrats.
Im just trying to give you the perspective. Anyone can reach that goal with a decent coach. I can assure you I can raise the level of a 15 year old kid in 2-3 months to roughly your same level if he follows my advice and trains. You are at about the end of the beginner classes and about to start the mid level classes.
Your coach boosted you to that level and spared you from hitting the wall early. But once you have to rely on long calculations, complex tactics, and grand strategy instead of just the basics, you will stall, because those previously mentioned topics take a couple of years of practice to barely scratch the surface. You cant skip that part. When you reach it, then you will know what it feels to get stuck. Once you start the real struggle, pain, hopelessness, frustration, anger, despair, its when you REALLY find out if chess is for you.
So, congrats on reaching a decent level very quickly. But calm down. It is super easy to go from 0 to 1700-1800. You will find more complicated to earn the next 100 points than the first 1700-1800. Chess is not linear. It gets harder and harder and super harder the higher your rating.
