OK you have been playing a number of games at your usual strength when all of a sudden you have a few games where someone with half your skill rating would eat you for lunch...and badly.....

You look at the moves you are making and wonder who the heck is possessing your body and making moves you would never usually make....

How many of you have been afflicted with this kind of chess brain malfunction?

You just gotta shake your head sometimes at the moves you sometimes find yourself making when this happens...

That sounds like most of my games.

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The concentration power sometimes can disturb you...I felt it too!

Yes I am currently on about a 250 point losing streak drop in my blitz rating.  It started with losing a bunch of really close endgames and then progressed to an uncontrollable snowball effect.  At this rate my rating should be around 500 points in, oh, I don't know, one week???

That happens to me sometimes.  I find that doing tactic problems before I play is a good warm-up.  I'll make less of these stupid mistakes.  You could try that.

Its either that or that player is better. I tried lowering my rating sometimes to crush the hopes of higher rated players. I got my rating to exactly 1200, I make unrated games to make it steady. Most of the players use the 4 moves mate against me LOL.