taking a break

Back at 700.
I'm back at 700. I was so close to 1000, but now i'm back where i started.
I'm angry. I'm tired of being forced to resign every time i make one tiny miscalculation and drop a piece into a losing endgame
I'm tired of watching my numbers drop down and down, reminding me that i'm not good enough to reach 4 digits. It's a cycle I've tried to leave and take a break from, but chess feels like the only thing new in my life, and it keeps drawing me back.
Lose a piece, resign in frustration, lose a piece in frustration. I might take a break for a week. I'm just infuriated. I'm too high ELO to be losing pieces like that. i'm not a beginner at 500, i've hit intermediate 900 ELO. I know at this ELO losing a piece without compensation. is just a death sentence and you will lose, even with perfect play from you. Most of my losses are resigns, yes, but every resign is because I made a tiny mistake and hung a piece or checkmate is inevitable. and every time this happens, I resign because i'd rather end the pain now then put in effort into an excercise into futility.
Thus, I'm taking a break. It might be for a week, It might be for a month, but for now, this is goodbye. I might do puzzles here and there to stay sharp, but I will not be active for a while, in games or on the chess.com puzzle forums.

Rather than take a break why don't you continue playing and improve? The only person that thinks you're not good enough to reach 4 digits is you, continue playing and change that 🙂