ELO keeps falling. do i just give up

It seems that reaching 1000 was just a momentary miracle.
It's already down by 100.
I don't feel motivated anymore. Uninteresting.
Chess itself may be a great game, but I may not be suited for it.

Please tell me how to love chess regardless of ELO.

i just like the noises it make. im using the space theme. maybe try that

No matter how slow I play, I always make a big bad move in each match.
When I analyze it, after being dominant in the early stages, I suddenly become disadvantaged.
It's always been that way.
Hmm, it seems difficult to improve.

Chess is a tough game buddy. I've only been playing for a year and it's been a roller coaster, no doubt. After a while I realized I was only going to get so far on my own and I Enlisted the help of a coach and certain other people who were willing to help me in other ways. I will say you are a lot further along than I was after 9 days. LOL my ELO was in the 300s I believe. But it's a lot of work and a lot of study and having a coach has helped me to understand certain things a lot better. But there is still so much to absorb and ascertain. But don't give up. Keep fighting. Analyze every single loss and figure out why you lost. Go over your preferred openings and see what you can add to your repertoire to make that opening more deadly and in your favor. For example I enjoy the Italian game and I recently added the Evans Gambit and the Italian Koltanowski Gambit to my arsenal. I've had great success with both. Enjoy the journey buddy. The ups and downs are all part of it and it will make the end result worth it. Love the game and learn everything you can.

thank you.
I've spent as much time as possible analyzing it, but it still seems to make the same mistakes.
During a losing streak, I don't even feel like analyzing.
So far, 4-5 losses in a row and I feel terrible.
Should I quit for a while?

Never quit!

I'm the same as you right now....  Slowly working my way up...then down...then up again and so it goes....  If your worried about ratings then play the bots until l you feel comfortable to try again with the world.  Studying the basics will help as well, such as opening principles, point values, tactics and co-ordinates REALLY help to study the material further once you have them learned.  Eventually when your listening or reading study material you'll be able to visualize in your head!

Also I think "lower rated players" also experience this and they start really getting serious when the ELO is 300/400....meaning that these players are actually now playing above their ELO that they have listed because of all their hard work and game play to improve but they are still catching up on their ELO rating, so you might be facing that too.

You definitely have to develop some discipline. It's really hard because after you lose a game, you want to play and make up for it with a glorious win, am I right? Lol I would say stop playing after every loss so you can at least do a quick analysis of the game. See which moves were bad and which moves might have been better and try to retain them to Memory somehow. I generally try to stick to a two or three loss rule. I want to play five games in a night if I choose to play. However if I lose the first two games I stop playing all together and analyze. I don't want to feel that horrible again so I want to learn what I can from the games so it doesn't happen again. And tilt is going to happen. There is nothing you can do to avoid it. So when it happens it's best to step away and take a break. Do something else that you enjoy, relax, and come back at it the next day. I only play 30 minute rapid games so my number of games per night is usually very limited, I have pulled some all-nighters however. LOL but try games with these time controls. Give yourself longer time to look at and consider every position that comes up in a game. But definitely stop playing when you are tilted. Come back at it the next day with the new knowledge you've obtained from analyzing your game. Good luck to you, my friend.

Take this quote from Alekhine: "I consider the following three factors necessary for success: first, the conscience of one’s own strengths and weaknesses; second, an exact understanding of the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses; third, a higher goal than a one-moment satisfaction."

If you want to sustainably play chess in the long term, you need a goal higher than the dopamine rush of Elo boosts or winning. These things are what we call external factors of success, which are fundamentally unreliable. If you keep focusing on this, you will get burnout and will eventually quit. This is how I quit chess several times in the past, as well as competitive video games and violin. 

What you need to do instead, is make your goal to play better chess. This can be by increasing knowledge or resolving to make better habits. Right now, I'm working on systematically reducing my blunders, and I couldn't care less if my Elo tanked from 1200 to well under a thousand because that's not what I'm focused on (and in some cases, a drop in Elo is a sign of active learning as your brain is assimilating new habits and ideas). 

 

NO, never give up. Also it looks like you just started chess so it's ok to lose some games. When I started on chess.com as 1200, I lost games to 900 but I learned and got better. Just practice.

You just need to get better at chess.  However, you are unlikely to get better at chess by playing exclusively speed chess.  You would increase your chances of getting better at chess if you were to....

Play Longer Time Controls...
For many at the beginner-novice level, speed chess tends to be primarily an exercise in moving pieces around faster than your opponent while avoiding checkmate, in hopes that his/her clock runs out sooner than yours.  And/or hoping to notice and exploit your opponent’s blunders while hoping they don't notice yours.  The reason for this is that in speed chess there is little time to think about what you should be doing.

It makes sense that taking more time to think about what you should be doing would promote improvement in your chess skills and results.  An effective way to improve your chess is therefore to play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing.

This is not to suggest that you should necessarily play exclusively slow or daily time controls, but they should be a significant percentage of your games, at least as much, if not more so than speed games which, while they may be fun, do almost nothing to promote an understanding of how to play the game well.

Here's what IM Jeremy Silman, well-known chess book author, has to say on the topic...
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

And Dan Heisman, well-known chess teacher and chess book author…
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http:/www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/dan-heisman-resources

and the experience of a FIDE Master...
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours

And learn what you should be doing...

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

You should learn most important principles of a chess game. That will give you a solid understanding of a chess game and you will know what to do in every position. Then, you should optimize your calculation so you don't miss tactics in your games. Your rating will skyrocket. I can help you with all of this. Message me if you are interested.

Correct me if im wrong, but the way I interpret your problem is that you in some way connect your self-worth to your ELO or skill at chess. I guess there are two solutions. The first, and the way most people in here seem see it, is that you have to improve at chess. Even though its an easy fix, I don't think this is the way to go. If you do, you'll have the same problem no matter what rating you are if you start loosing games (and you will, everyone has loosing streaks). 

My recomendation is that you simply start looking at the game as a game, and disregard what ELO you are. Improve for improvements sake (if you enjoy improving) and stop looking at numbers. 

 

Chess is not a game you will get good at in a week, a month or even a year. It will take a lot of time and effort.

But if you really feel not motivated after 15 games and in less than a month, then maybe you want to try some other game. I mean this as no offense. I just don't see why you would want to invest a lot of time in a game you feel unmotivated to play after a couple weeks already...

I think everyone has given a very solid advice. All I can say is that don’t play chess if winning is important to you. Because there is always someone better than you are. I am impressed that you have continued to play and that is the fun. I have been 1000, then dropped to 650ish. Then again 900+. And to be honest it didn’t make any difference. I personally enjoy loosing more because that’s how I learn to improve. Winning doesn’t teach me anything. Though over rated but still pick one opening and learn properly. Play it again and again. You will see new moves. Go back, analyze, fix and then play the same opening again. Believe me winning will come.

If you don't like it, quit.

 

If you're 900, you must have a genuine skill for chess. Don't quit, play unrated.

Never give up :D

I see

Your ELO is now 363, do you still enjoy playing chess?