She went from complete beginner to 2000 rapid in 2 years. Good story.

I see a lot of threads on here asking how to best improve. This study schedule is very effective for this chess player.  Notice the study habits, time control (not all bullet/blitz), real otb tournaments, discipline. 

I like how someone actually did and their journey. I started before her and I can say that I need to work on my endgames and tactics more and be more consistent with my training rather than playing game after game with little to no analysis

If I were young and just getting into chess I'd do everything differen than how I went about it.  I think her approach is smart... but it may be different for different people.  

She was on the Perpetual Chess podcast a little while back, talking more in-depth about her strats. Loved that episode

Not to take anything away from her progress, but I think it is more realistic to look at her USCF graph rather than her chess.com graph. In 2 years, she went from beginner to 1300. That doesn't sound as impressive as "0-2000", but gives people a better idea as to the rate of progress.

I didn't look up her uscf graph.  I'll go look it up. Still, just learning the moves to 1300 uscf in 2 years is pretty good too, especially being over 20 when first starting. 

1300 USCF is 2000 rapid chess.com? I find that hard to believe.

Doesn't that just mean she's underrated in USCF?

I'm guessing she plays a LOT more online than real tournaments.  Maybe the 1300 would be higher if she played otb more.

It isn't bad, but it isn't insane either. 1300 USCF is pretty common for kids who have been playing for a few years. Where she is going to run into trouble is with her opening choices. She plays the London, sonas she progresses into the 1500-2000 USCF range, she is going to run into players who have developed their anti-London setups, which will cost her a lot of half-pints. At her current level, she should expect to improve about 50-150 points per year (assuming she maintains her diligent practice regimen). As she approaches 2000, it will start to get harder to keep improving (in terms of rating gains).

Strange. I'm about 1550 FIDE and wouldn't reach 2000 in rapid here for the life of me.

What's her USCF? After a breif serach I didn't find it.

Nah, she's 1700 blitz and bullet... that's way above 1300 USCF. @smalltowngoose

Sure kids can have a large gap, but 400 points would be huge IMO.

https://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?30443761

This is a pretty busy & consistent playing schedule.  

Ugh, USCF is so shameful, allowing 20 + 5 (delay, not even increment) to be rated as regular rating.

But yeah, that's surprising her USCF is so low. Whatever the reason (moving too fast, bad openings, whatever) I wouldn't be surprised to see a tournament where she suddenly gains 100 points.

She talked about it a bit on the Perpetual Chess Podcast. Basically, there are not a lot of higher rated players in her local club, which limits the gains she can make.

However, it is not unrealistic for someone in the 1300-1400 USCF range to get to 2000 rapid on chess.com. A kid in my local club is rated ~1800 USCF and just crossed 2500 chess.com blitz. The fact that you can play a ton of games online means you can effectively farm rating. If you look at her online games, she still plays like someone in the 1300-1400 USCF range. That is not to disparage her improvement (it is impressive to go from 0 to 1300 in 2 years virtually by yourself), but rather to point out that her online rating is not a great reflection of her current skill level nor her improvement trajectory. If she keeps it up, I suspect she will be similar to another adult improver (Stacia) who followed a similar path and is now roughly 1800 USCF.

Hmm, interesting, I'll check out her games.

1800 USCF -> 2500 chess.com blitz, sure, some kids are like that, but even for kids it's rare to have such a large gap.

And yeah, her improvement is still great, and it's a good piece of entertainment / encouragement / information for her to make a video about it.

It seems that is a chess dessert there. Maybe if her average competition were higher rated it'd have a effect on her rating that drove it higher. Maybe playing a few big tournaments each year would help, playing up a section every time.

That was a well put together video. Very professional. 

For example, her most recent event was a couple weeks ago. She beat 2 provisional sub-1000 players and lost to a 1400. The event before that was in February with a similar results (she beat 3 sub-1000 players, lost to an 1100 and a 1500). It would benefit her to have more players in the 1200-1600 USCF range to play against, but that is going to be a rather large hike where she is.