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200 hours of chess!

I just reached a new landmark: 200 hours of chess! I’m pretty obsessed about the game these days, getting in about 50 hours weekly. My ratings as of now (on Chess.com):

  • Live chess, Blitz: 1,228
  • Live chess, Standard: 1,105
  • Online chess (correspondence), Standard: 1,521
  • Tactics Trainer: 1,217
  • Chess Mentor: 1,629

I’m clearly better at correspondence chess (and slow chess, in general), than the “lucky punch” kind of quick chess. My last recorded correspondence rating was 1,501, after 151 hours (5 days ago). So, my rating has increased by 20 points in 49 hours. If I can keep this rate of improvement up, I should have a rating somewhere between 1,800 and 2,000 when I celebrate my next birthday, in just about 200 days from now. This might be somewhat optimistic. However, I now feel more confident that I’ll reach my initial goal of 1,700 before my birthday.

Now, back to the board.

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