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Finally hit the 1000 ELO milestone after exactly 200 games on December 15th, 2024.

I’ve played another game since so here’s the overall graph.

A nice learning journey so far. It took a bit over 10 months to reach the 1007, so I’m averaging about 20 games per month and about +5 ELO/game (5.04). Currently very happy with my opening choices and the focus for next year will be tactics and calculation.

Assuming it will get twice as hard and I can increase the volume to 25 games/month, I’m hoping for a best case scenario of 12*25*2.5=750 points. I’ll set the target at 1600 for the end of 2025 and take it 200 points at a time 🙂

After the vacation, my daily routine was basically keeping up to date with a couple of Chessable courses and grinding daily Chess.com puzzles. Here’s the graph since then.

Tracking every day was too much of a chore so I’ll keep tracking the games on a higher aggregation level and maybe post selected games going forward. This covers the gap from day 23 to day 60. Afterwards, I went on a one month vacation to Asia and didn’t play any games during that time. I did however keep up the 30 minutes/day tactics puzzles.