Right, so, I haven't exactly been beating the world, but I think I've been doing ok. I've had some slumps but up to 1155 ELo right now after a bit over a 100 games. The games against 1000-1200 are quite different than against 800-1000, most of the time people aren't complete idiots, more of a hit and miss. I do get challenging games occasionally, and 2-3 times I've just felt outplayed the whole game, beginning to end. My winrate is still over 75% all-time, so I think I still got some climbing to do on the ranks. I've watched a whole bunch of videos and read up on openings, the sicilian is still off-limits but I've had good success with the vienna and dutch. I expected to be done with this shit by now being completely bored and burnt out, but instead I feel like I'm enjoying it more than ever. Been having some great battles and back and forth games, it still amazes me that playing 4-5 semi-reasonable moves from the opening can get you completely out of theorized territory. Wild.