question for 1600+ players

to me 1600 is a relatively high rating, so I decided to put that as a threshold but this is a question for any high rated player. I would like some answers and I know it varies from player to player, how long approximately did it take you to get where you are? I ask this to determine how much of a role talent and practice play. so if I am an average player and i am 1300 classical and 1100 ish blitz right now, how much would u expect me to go up in say 1 year of playing 2 games a day for example? or is it talent that gets you past 1600 ?

It depends of your skills, hours of study, illusion and effort you put on.

It is more important to study and understanding chess than play.

Maybe 1000 hours or never, 1600 is not too much

Raw talent is not enough to reach 1600. Diligent study, analysis of own games and masters and tactics solving of at least 4 hours a week will take you to 1600 within a year. And play with better players more often.

I've been playing correspondence chess off and on for 9 years. Before that I only played casually against my family. I've never been coached by a better player and I don't have any chess books. I briefly went to a chess club several years ago but I don't have any clubs near me now. What I know I've learned from experience, solving chess puzzles, watching chess videos, reading chess articles and just hanging out on chess sites. Sometimes I play bullet/blitz but only for fun. You can't learn as much by playing fast games.

I made it to 1500-1600 standard and correspondence by experience. It took me about 4 years to learn how the pieces move to where I am now. For some reason , I'm not that good at blitz. I crack and lash out under those time controls and get wooped by a nilly willy I'd have any day in a serious game.

about 3 years

Before joining here in November I hadn't played a game in a good 10 years. Did some studying before I started playing and i've been in the 1650-1700 standard range pretty much the whole time.

I started playing December 2015. YouTube and practice took me to 1800+, no books or coaching.

Two games a day won't be enough (IMO), practice is all it takes to achieve a high rating.

Just half a year, my online chess rating is 1600+

Resources and environment also matters. It is not going to a higher rating it is about how much you improve your play and the relative time taken to do it.

I started playing chess in 2013. At that point I was sub-1000. Three years later I am over 1600. It took a lot of work, but not too much. I have played several thousand games over that time span. Initially I only played standard time controls, but these days I don't play games longer than 3 0. Shorter games are not good for improvement, if you want to improve faster, player longer time controls like 15 10.

A lot depends on the individual in terms of how fast you will improve. Some of it depends on natural talent, in other ways it depends on how much you dedicate yourself to improving. Anyone can reach 1600 in my opinion with enough effort, it's not that hard. I still make lots of mistakes and so do my opponents.

Playing games alone wont get you anything. For starters, do tactics and strategies . When you feel confident enough that you have improved in tactically wise, or positionally wise, then try it out in a few standard games.

Oh, i forgot, and also do the chess mentor everyday. 

Then only you can improve.

For me, i was 1400+ until 2 years ago. I practiced and practiced and then the next year i jumped to 1600 and this year, 1900.

I forgot, analyse grandmaster games such as kasparov, karpov, Tal, Botvinik and Fischer.

Depends on a lot of factors. The first factor is age. The second is time spent. The third is talent. The fourth is resources (i.e. coaching, being in a location to play OTB events, money to spend on chess, chess books, etc.).

Ermm...no.  You can get to 1600 with nothing more than Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, a bad opening book by Reinfeld, and a lot of playing.

You forgot Pandolfini's books