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Moving from 1800-2000 must certainly be very different than 2400-2600, is it not? I assume the higher levels of play follow a bell curve with a long tail.

It seems within reason that one could move from 800 to 1000 in 16 days with very basic study and coaching.

> there is a lot of randomness especially when playing blitz and rapid chess

This is likely true, but this randomness appears to be averaged out by the sheer amount of games he played over the ~6 month period in the chart.



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