I do not know how some people get rated over 2200 on Lichess ?

[Chessqueen]

I do not claim that Jorge Pichard improved in the last 2 years and I understand people who believe that he did not improve significantly in the last 2 years but basically it is possible for a person who did not take chess seriously to be many years at weak level and improve his playing strength significantly.

I believe that improveent from USCF rating 1100 to level of at least 2000 in 2 years is possible if somebody works seriously about chess but it is something that is very rare and you probably need to work some hours about chess every day to get it.

Usually players do not improve in one year by more than 200 elo.

I m not claiming that i improved to more than 1950, it is my online trainer that keep telling me that I have improved in his Eyes up to 1975. Anyway I only take two sections of 1 hour each with my online trainer per week, but accumulative I study probably another 3 hours per day by my own, according to my wife, she has been complaining to me and telling me that I am addicted to chess. So total I believe that between my two hour training per week, plus 15 + 2 = 17 hours per week for the last 20 months and reading chess books that my online trainer assigned to me like How to reassess your Chess Expanded 3rd edition by Jeremy Silman, Emanuel Lasker Chess manual, Chess Tactics from Scratch by Martin Weteschnick. Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Laszlo Polgar, Understanding Chess Middlegames by Nunn, Pawn Structure Chess by Soltis and more. Also I spent a lot of time on youtube looking at video like ==> ==> and many many other videos about the middlegame. and all these winning plan lessons ==>

3 hours per day is clearly different than what you posted:

"I bet someone could easily become a master or at least 2100 player with the right study methods with 3 hrs a week."

I believe that there are adults who can improve significantly if they train 3 hours per day with the right training methods and improve from 1100 to 1950 in 2 years but I do not believe everybody can do it.

Been playing for two decades and was stuck around 1300 was due to my laziness, that is why I got an online trainer; and then started studying chess puzzles on my own to improve tactics which I feel most important, and on top of that strategy . I bet someone could easily become a master or at least 2100 player with the right study methods with 3 hrs a week. The three hours is related to the 2 hours with my online trainer, but before I get online I have to get ready with all my notes and with an explanation of what I have learned by reading those assigned books and videos that he sent me weekly and that take an extra hour of preparation, so you can say three hour for the online trainer, beside the 3 hour daily that i need to read my book and watch some videos on youtube.
Here is another player that was close to 1500 and advanced to close to 2000 ==>