Setting chess goals

Should I be setting myself chess goals? If so, how ambitious should the goals be and on what basis should I set them? Thanks

They say that average Chess player level is 1500-1600 points of rating.

So I think that that would be a good goal for you.

When I reached 1500 points first time... my mood became good. )

I personally prefer 30 minutes games.

One hour games are annoying.

I'm going disagree with everyone I'm afraid and suggest not setting achievement goals. They dont support progress. Instead set study goals such as solve 5 puzzles everyday, play through 2 GM games every week and write down two things you learned that you will start or stop doing in your own games, play one 60 minute game every saturday and annotate and review it afterwards, learn a new endgame technique every monday. These are the sort of goals that if you stick to them, drive improvement. Why the days of the week? The more specific, focussed and byte sized your goal, the easier it is to achieve. Also if you miss a goal then it doesn't matter, let it go, next monday (or whatever day) is like hitting the reset and you are back on track. In 12 months you'll have made 1600 one day at a time without breaking a sweat.

My name is Lauren Goodkind and I'm a chess coach based in California.  

If you are serious about chess, then set some goals! You are in control on what you want to accomplish in chess.   Remember to have fun while you try to accomplish your goals.  Maybe a small goal can be to get to 1100, then 1200, and then higher!  

  To help you accomplish your goals, you might want to consider hiring a chess coach, reading tactic books, and playing slow chess games.  

  I hope that this helps!

Today I decided, "You know what, Imma reach 1400 soon! Only 70 points away!"

Now I only have 90 rating points to gain to reach my goal!

In 2017 I was 800 rated, and I wrote here a thread called "How do i reach 1500". 2021 now and I am 1485 rated, still on the road to touch 1500 mark. It was a goal which took me 4 years. So depends on you, you can try to reach next 100 points or something similar.

Not really, I am 1400 fide rated over the real over the board tournaments. I am almost 1500 on chess . com and 1800 on liches. So chess com is +(50-100) over your real rating and liches +400

At least in my case. But my club friends are rated exactly like me with +100 and+400 on these 2 platforms

Hmm, in fact it show to chess com statistics shows me at 1480 (your are better than 90% of players). So the average chess com rating is actually around 1000.

The problem is, most of the accounts are people who think: "Hey, why don't I take up chess as a hobby!" and then they quit a week later.

So the average active player's rating is much different.

No. The average ACTIVE player rating is much higher

The displayed percentile in "stats" is based on the population of players who have played a game in that category in the last 90 days.  You could probably get a much higher number if you define "active" differently, sure.

I think the same. I don't remember who wrote that average level is 1500-1600... two or three monthes ago... But it looks quite possable.

If one man has highest rating 3000... and another man has lowest rating 400... then it is logical that average level of chess.com is about 1400-1600 points.

In fact its not logic at all. There are few players above 2000, and thousands under 1000. So the 1400-1600 (the middle) is not proportional. More likely 1100-1200 could be a more realistic number of average active player.