About a year ago I signed up for a month long trial on playchess.com, I played a few long games then dipped in now and again but my rating drifted down to 1550. Recently I decided to play one long game a week to supplement the long games I play over the board. The upshot is my rating has hit a new high of 1779 after this weeks game, which I am pretty happy with considering this has only taken a month and a half.