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tony-rook-lomas

Man! I was above 1000! Now down to almost 700! Why does it seem like I am getting worse! I am trying to get better!

shadowtanuki

I don't think chess.com actually helps very many people get better at chess. At ~900 in rapid, it says I'm in the upper 25% of rating on the website. Actually, 1400 is supposed to be average in tournaments, so obviously most of the site's users aren't even improving their rating to an average level. Even without trying, you can be better than half the users on the site. If you want to get better, you'll have to do something different from what you've been doing. I wouldn't expect to improve too much playing rapid games against other weak players. It might be entertaining, but it won't improve your chess skills. Read a chess book, study master games. You know, the opposite of what most chess.com users do.

anshuisthewinner

True

Ghostgill
If your not as good as other player then yes you deserve to lose.
SacrifycedStoat
Looking at some of your recent games, you have a high rate of time out and abandoning games.
In your most recent game, you lost on time with 40 seconds on the clock when their rook was hanging.
Compadre_J

Yes, you deserve to lose!

You’re the type of person that doesn’t accept the En Passant rule.

I bet your type of guy that moves his King.

Than moves his King back and tries to castle.

anshuisthewinner

Nah bro

hangejj

If during a game your opponent out plays you, then your opponent earned the win and you earned the loss. If you out play your opponent, then you earned the win and your opponent earned the loss. If you both end up in a draw, then you both earned the draw.

Deserve is not the way I would put it. I guess the word 'deserve' could be replaced with the word 'earned' if one really wants to.
Its very semantic but for a reason. When I'm on a losing streak, I try to look at it from another way to not get too frustrated with my losing streak. The word deserve is too much of a generalized word. Gives me the feeling that I won't get out of the streak. The word earned helps me to take it game by game and I'm just 1 game away to end a losing streak.

ShikshaWithPraveen

My father used to smack me on the back of my head everytime I lost a game.