What i mean is - why do they do it? I understand why people play chess - they enjoy it. I understand why people want to get from rating 1200 to 1700(elo) - its easy and quick to do. You probably can get this in year or two with correct training. But why someone rated 1900 spends 20 years to get to 2500? Or someone 1600 rated tryes to get 2200(which is enough for first master level - national master)?
Lets assume that this 1900 is 20 years old. That would mean that he would be grandmaster level at age of 40 and it is believed 20-40 are the golden years of a man(30 being best ones), so hes spending his best years just to learn to play a game, basically...
Or lets assume that 1900 is 30 years old(like me, but i'm rated 1750 but dont tell anyone:)). That would mean that if i wanted to get to a grandmaster level i would have to spend most of my time every day for next 20 years and i would be 50 - basically already an old man. I would like to achieve it if i can and i will try for a year at first and see how it goes, but i'm wondering - why people are doing that?
P.S. And yes i know about talent, that some people can get grandmaster in 15 years and some cannot get in 50 years, but thats not the point. Assuming that you have a talent, but not like magnus, MVL or Giri.
Lets assume that this 1900 is 20 years old. That would mean that he would be grandmaster level at age of 40 and it is believed 20-40 are the golden years of a man(30 being best ones), so hes spending his best years just to learn to play a game, basically...
Or lets assume that 1900 is 30 years old(like me, but i'm rated 1750 but dont tell anyone:)). That would mean that if i wanted to get to a grandmaster level i would have to spend most of my time every day for next 20 years and i would be 50 - basically already an old man. I would like to achieve it if i can and i will try for a year at first and see how it goes, but i'm wondering - why people are doing that?
P.S. And yes i know about talent, that some people can get grandmaster in 15 years and some cannot get in 50 years, but thats not the point. Assuming that you have a talent, but not like magnus, MVL or Giri.