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Fascinating. I am just starting to study chess seriously this year, and devoured that thread with interest.

A question for the chess experts on here - is it possible to take your rating from around 500 as a rank beginner to around 1000 within a 12 month span? I kind of set that for myself as an ambitious goal once I've finished the study phase but have no idea how difficult a task that would be.

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I wouldn't worry too much about your elo, if you're enjoying it you're gonna get a lot better. For the longest time people didn't even have the internet to get better and had to spend big $$ to get coaching.

To get better you need to first master the endgame so you don't throw won games, then learn what kinds of midgame positions (tactical vs positional) you enjoy best so you can then pick a few openings you like.

That is very achievable :) stop blundering/hanging pieces and you are there. I myself since discovering lichess this year set myself the goal to go 1000 to 1500 lichess elo, which is approximately the same. It's May and I'm stuck at 1450. (Also mainly by stopping to blunder pieces)

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