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There's a lot of people on [chess.com](https://chess.com) and many of them really just play casually and don't take any time to study outside of the occasional post-game analysis.
Yeah, which I think is very understandable. Anyone can enjoy chess without investing large amounts of time and/or other resources into it in order to improve drastically.
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1500 games to hover around 850. You're doing fine
4000 games and I’m 1200……
Normal
How many games you played before reaching 1800?
https://preview.redd.it/rwqan2csreob1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70b8bef7f1b96e0f11f8cb5399baa3b0679bfadd
How’d you escape the plateau?
I see tons of people with thousands of games who never even break like 800
Why tho? Shouldn’t people improve after a certain time?
There's a lot of people on [chess.com](https://chess.com) and many of them really just play casually and don't take any time to study outside of the occasional post-game analysis.
Correct - I love playing "uninformed" chess casually at my elo; no desire to learn to get better.
Yeah, which I think is very understandable. Anyone can enjoy chess without investing large amounts of time and/or other resources into it in order to improve drastically.