How do I get to 2000 rapid elo?

My username's wish is yet to come true. In fact, I'm trash after playing games on this account for almost a year: I'm not even rated 1000! I've learned about pins, skewers, zugzwang, forks, etc. I also play simple e4/e5 openings (giuoco piano, four knights, Italian game, and so on.) please for the love of the game, someone tell me what the heck I'm doing wrong here! don't tell me it's easy either, believe me, you would be a liar and a disgrace.

There's nothing magic about 2000, You should set your goals a little more achievable in the short term.

I see that you have taken exactly 1 lesson here and done only 16 puzzles.

Even as a free member, you get access to lessons and puzzles.  In the year since you joined, you could have done many lessons and solved hundreds of puzzles.  I personally think that the timed Puzzle Rush is very helpful in learning to spot typical combinations.

I don't have premium. Do you recommend lichess puzzles until I can pay for premium?

Because the free ones here run out

Hey mate, nobody can simply give you ‘tips’ on what you might be doing wrong to get to 2000 when you’re 500ish, the gulf in ability between the two points is simply too big.

Based on your rating alone you probably have an issue with board vision/threats/safety/blundering etc because it’s impossible to be rated like that and not that have these issue, so that’s something you probably want to work on. Good luck on your quest…

Get to 1999 and win a game against a 1200

In reality?

Start by hitting 1000

Then 1100

Then 1200...

and do lots of puzzles on whatever site, and analyze every game you play. 30+0 or longer is best.

Uh, I mean I can't really tell what you're doing wrong, but I can tell you how to reach your goal. 
Do lots and lots of tactics. If you can't afford a chess.com membership, then you can always go on l*chess. 
You should also stick to playing rapid games, rather than blitz or bullet

also after every game you should review it to see where you went wrong and how you can improve on that

hope this helps

Your goal shouldn’t be to get to 2000. That’s setting yourself up for disappointment, and it hurts all the more when you don’t reach your impossible goal in the timespan you’ve set for yourself. Start by making small goals progressively bigger. First 800, then 1000, then 1200, then 15000, and so on.

What is the point in playing games like this?

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/44945342385?tab=analysis

What were you thinking when you played 6. Nxe5, just throwing away the knight for no reason? Well, I can tell that exactly: nothing. You made that move in less than 1 second.And that's not some outlier in the game, later you made another 1-second move to hang a rook, and a 3.second move to allow checkmate.

Your opponent made all the blunders you can hope for (including blundering a piece on move 2, an impressive feat), but even that was enough for him.

Playing games like this, and at the same time making forum threads like this is ridiculous. You are on this site for close to a year now. You checked a grand total of 1 lesson, and 16 puzzles in all those months. You make no effort to learn, all you do is play speed chess with random moves.

It's so hard to get 2000 elo

As a few others have said, it's mostly an issue with board vision / losing pieces for no reason. If you give away pieces for free it doesn't matter how much you learn about forks and checkmates and openings and strategy etc.

The first major hurdle for any new player is developing good calculation habits. Mostly this is checking whether your intended move loses something for free... everyone blunder checks a few times a game, but the goal is to do it on every move of every game. This kind of habit typically takes people more than a year to fully develop.

Play long games where you work hard on each move to not give away anything for free. Not even one pawn.

Do that while continuing to study strategy and tactics and endgames and you'll improve a lot.

Shut up, @magipi. You saw my question and failed miserably to answer it. I asked "how to get to 2000 rapid rating", and you responded "don't play random blunders like nxe5". Not only is that obvious, but it's insulting. While everyone else gave a good answer, like "get to 800, then 1000, then go from there", you had to cherry-pick one of my worst games that I didn't even remember I played. The truth is that I never played nxe5 when e5 was defended EVER AGAIN. I didn't even think I made that move in a game, since opening blunders that horrible happen so rarely. In contrast, if you had picked one of my very best games, you would have thought I was a trolling GM. TL; DR The whole point of this thread was to learn the methods of improving at chess. You literally just told me what NOT to do. Quit whining, Magi.

To everyone other than Magipi, including a Candidate Master (What???), thank you for the advice. I didn't expect my cry for help to get this much attention lol

LetsReach2000Oneday, first of all, get a grip on your anger. Telling others to “shut up” shows a lack of netiquette and self control. Self control is a valuable asset to have as a chess player. magipi did not give his response in the most polite, tactful manner, but you need to look beyond that. He has a point: your never going to reach 2000 with no effort, in fact I believe his answer can be quite helpful for you. He has pointed out that you don’t do lessons, or puzzles on the site. If you do them elsewhere, you can respectfully reveal that.

Your response shows a lack of maturity which will only hinder you from making progress in chess. It requires discipline to apply the advice given by everyone else. Have a nice day.

Aim for smaller steps, goals within reach. I remember when I first reached 1000 it was because I stopped hanging pieces so much. When I stopped losing pawns so much I reached 1200. When I learned to play for checkmate in the middle game I reached 1500. Then I learned to give away pawns and pieces to get checkmate and I got to 2000. Now I am trying to reach 2400 and it's tough. I need to learn better positional strategies and clean up my endgame techniques. I still have great weaknesses that cause me to lose games.

@jalex13 maturity makes me a better chess player? Truly groundbreaking. I'll go back to chess once I master the art of doing exactly what magipi didn't do. Have a nice day.

@foduck another great answer. You went step by step, barrier by barrier, and you went into detail on how you broke each. Thank you. This is the kind of answer I was hoping for (and honestly expecting).

It took me about 9 months to reach 1800-1900 level in rapid. What did I do? I played a ton of games. I was obsessed for a couple of months and played around 2000+ rapid games (cant remember exactly) on lichess and reached 2000 elo there. Here on chess.com  it seems abit harder to get there as I tried it out, atm 1900. I didnt do any studying of chess but played and studied my games, got everything from there.

I do notice my opening knowledge is lacking and can lead to trouble sometimes, but Ive actually learned alot of "theory" just playing and seeing what works.

 

Most answers are either fully serious or have some element of a joke in them...

Now, if your question hadn't been as good as some others on the forums... xD

@Kotshmot I mean, you obviously must have some sort of natural talent if all it took was playing tons of games. After all, the other 1900+ people suggested tactics, and even then, it took well over a year. Are you simply boasting? Either way, it worked, since I'm extremely impressed haha.