How to deal with chess burnout?

Like the title says, how do I deal with chess burn out. A few weeks ago my elo was climbing I was playing games, studying, doing puzzles. Now it's just dropped I haven't changed anything. It's like my brain just refuses to play. My past like 10 games were terrible. It's like I've completely lost my ability to think. 

I go for walks, play some silly video games like Stardew Valley, read a little bit, maybe have a horror movie marathon, and I do that for a day until I feel like it's the right time to go back to chess. But when I have bad days where I can't play well or do puzzles, I have a chess-free day, and it seems to help.

The last few days in fact I've done just that. Today was a zombie day full of George Romero's movies, played some GTA 5, and just relaxed, not thinking about chess at all. I know tomorrow I'll be ready to go back to it.

I have the same issue right now. Sort of opposite issue, my rating went up then down and it's going up again...and I don't want to play incase I start losing it again...it's a weird mental thing.

First thing, like I've told you several times, stop with the rapid and blitz games. You don't learn chess that way. Sometimes you can really over think the game. Go back to basics, develop and take the center, castle and get your king to safety and don't blunder. Building a solid position will help. Don't attack too early, not before you're fully developed. No piece left behind, as they say

Chess is for fun. There is no need to deal with burnout - just do something else if you don't feel like playing chess.

First and foremost, don't stress about the rating points. You will get them back when you turn it around again. You are just on a bad streak right now, but like all streaks it will come to an end. If you need a break, just take a week off of chess and do something else. Me, I could not make it a week without chess winning or losing lol so I would only do a couple of days break myself.

This happens to all of us - just take a break and try again when you are refreshed.

One thing I try to do, but not always successfully, is to stop playing on a day when I lose three in a row. It's too easy to keep hitting the rematch button and before you know it you've dropped 40 or 50 rating points :-) So, recognize when you are not having a good day and force yourself to take a break.

There are some possible ways to help this: Don't play for a bit, also something that can help is grinding weak bots like this: 500, 600, 700... until you are at your level. Once your bot challenges you, you can slowly improve back. Remember, this will solve itself almost always on its own, but you don't want to lose rating, so at the very least grind unrated.

Hope this was helpful

My tips: Spectate better players, opt in for a premium chess.com to get move reviews, getting lessons really improved my game. My OTB rating is ~1850 but i've been playing a little better than that these days all from lessons and game reviews.

Thank you very much Chess.com He made me play chess patiently

Don't do this! It has been scientifically proven this leads to developing a bad relationship between yourself the sport and the food or object you use as an incentive.

Look, I just quit for roughly 8 months till I was having fun again. What you need to do is stop being so rough on yourself. You probably don't need to quit for that long but taking a break of a few days or a week can really make you feel better about yourself and your game.

I can sympathize with what your feeling I recently was dealing with burnout lost 5 blitz games in a row and average around like 65% accuracy, I basically just took a break from Chess to let my mind get refreshed, and to get back to play chess competitively I started playing bots to see where I was and I'm back to playing like my old self.

you can eat poop

Negative reinforcement doesn't really work. You'll end up getting pissed off because you cannot eat your Dorito. It's better to set short term goals and reward yourself. For example, If you're a 600 elo, reach 800 and maintain it for a month then treat yourself.

Real!