The brain is not a bucket to be filled in a given time. The 50.000 chunks which the average IM possesses have to be developed and ripen within years or decades. Chess is more a „procedure“ (praxis) then a theoretical collection of dry knowledge.
In short: this is utter crap. You can get some rating points within 3 months, agreed.
@CrazyHome How many people do you know that memorize all the latest GM games?
I mean, even Carlsen gets outprepared from time to time (and coincidentally had built up his reputation by unusually often picking merely "playable" openings instead of 30 move theoretical lines and still becoming the best).
The gaps between 1600-1800, 1800-2000, 2000-2200, 2200-2400 are not the same.
It's an uphill bell curve which slows you down and gets harder and harder to achieve.
3 months. Try 30 years.
I agree with lovlas. I would sidebet someone sharp could go from 2000 to IM with <10% opening work. Even though at this point magnus knows a bunch of opening prep bc of all the matches he plays, overall he doesnt know shit in the openings compared to guys like caruana or anand that are in the lab all day with the comp optimizing. Yet he does perfectly fine bc he understands fundamentals (endgame structures) better than prob anyone ever. My opinion is chess is more about leveraging structural advantages and tactical execution. The biggest factor here that was not mentioned is the person matters alot. If they are a fcking wizard in another mentally challenging game and have really good pattern recognition (not for memorizing but to build a robust framework) maybe like 6 months is possible from a really talented and resourceful person. Obv rote memorization doesn't work there are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe. But with a super sharp coach you could learn all the right ways to approach the game. 3 months is near impossible unless its some 11 yr old beast.
Obviously the gaps are non linear as you get higher in rating. this means the difficulty goes up but does not mean the time has to go up. though obv usually will. as you get better you compound your learning.
I think People who has achieved either IM or GM are qualified to answer this question. The rest of us are not. Obviously 3 months is not feasible unless you are extremely talented and on the way up.
I don't need an olympic medal to know, that nobody can run 100 meters in three seconds.
Well. When you see 10 year old kids get the IM title one might think that it would be easy for an adult to do the same. Spoiler: it isn't.
I don't know if my opinion here is valid or not but here it goes. Firstly, good luck to your friend. I knew and I still know quite a few people that believe that they can make a 600 rating jump very quickly. Gaining more than 200 points in a year is considered a great success after passing 1800 FIDE. 300 FIDE points in a year is rare (if your rating is above 1800), and +400 FIDE points in a year is almost unheard of. There are many people that are playing chess full time and are struggling to grow. I think it's a hard task, but not an impossible one.
Good luck to your friend on this journey.
P.S. Let me know if he quits midway when he realized he was too cocky for his own good.
@Ysharia 1700 elo on Lichess? are u talking about 1700 elo Fide classical or Lichess blitz/rapid?
