"Roman M. Parparov" wrote in message
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Jerzy wrote:
"Roman M. Parparov" wrote in message
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IMHO, a progress from 1000 to 1500 is a matter of a year, otherwise
it's a waste of money (although a pleasant hobby).

Hmmm, first you wrote 1800 then 1600 and now 1500 )
Never mind however.

1500 in a year and then at least 100 points a year

I disagree with this At least from the perspective that there are
undoubtedly exceptions:

one player from my country (don't think i'll say who ) is a very strong IM
nowadays. He told me that he got stuck in the 1700s for 2 or 3 years. I
first met him 1 year after that when he had jumped to 2020 and he just
continued to improve rapidly from there. (These are scottish ratings, not
US, general consesus seems to be add about 100pts to get US). I think
players are different: some improve constantly, some plateau then make big
jumps and those who plateau do so at different levels. Its very difficult to
make generalisations simply because even talented players seem to follow
different patterns in this respect. So although most very strong players
improve rapidly at first, its not always the case.

To qualify what i've said though, if a player is 1500 and works hard on his
game and a year later is still 15**, then its difficult to give them much
chance of becoming a 2400. So I'm not dismissing your comments, just
pointing out that such generalisations tend to have a fair number of
exceptions,
cheers
iain