No. I had a "ratings breakthrough" last year.
http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/12763067 Went from 1031 to 1545 from April
2002 to April 2003. 514 points was pretty good, I thought.

I didn't do anything special though. Just rubbed myself in peanut butter
and sacrificed a goat while reading Guns & Ammo.



Regards,

Matt


"drummerman" wrote in message
om...
Am I to conclude that I am the only chess player having a ratings
breakthrough?


(drummerman) wrote in message
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Generally, mature chess players will stay in the same ratings range
for years. Then, occasionally and only occasionally, a player will
have a burst of rating points. This happened to me when I read Dan
Heisman's material on "Real" Chess versus "Hope" Chess. I gained
about 150 points over six months after assimilating the concept. I
am wondering if other readers can describe a similar rating points
gain and connect the gain to something new that they learned about
chess that had a comparable "impact".