It's happened to me several times, totally normal. Everybody falls into slumps. Next game, take your time. Maybe play on a longer time control so you have more time to think things through. Try some of the lessons to get you refreshed on how to play. The puzzles are great too. Do a few but really look at them for a few minutes if you have to and try to solve it. Sometimes just taking that step back and thinking things through goes a long way.
How often do you backslide a large amount of elo?
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Feb 13, 2023
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Do not worry about gaining rating. Instead, have a rating target (say, 1200) and emulate what level of play is required to play at that level; essentially, focusing more on your skill rather than an arbitrary rating as if you do not play at the said rating, you are bound to losing ELO from that point.
It happens quite often, usually if we played while focusing on our rating, we tried as hard as possible to bring back our peak rating. That means sometimes we're trying way too hard to win, and when we lose, we move on to another game quickly instead of analysing our past games. The right way to play is to avoid losing first, and then try to play with the intention of learning, not winning.
Took a 6 month break last year, started again and slid 100. Then won my next 12 games and pretty much got it all back. No logical explanation for this,
whiteknight1968 wrote:
Took a 6 month break last year, started again and slid 100. Then won my next 12 games and pretty much got it all back. No logical explanation for this,
No logical explanation is needed other than that's life. You win some, you lose some.
I just had my first big elo drop this week, I've lost 90 elo so far
I seem to just constantly go between losing a lot, and winning a lot. So I get to a higher score, then I lose for some time and start thinking I might just suck really badly. Then suddenly I start winning more. Curious to see if that Trend will continue, and how high I can get. Highest only about 570 so far, really hoping to get to 1000 at least
Feb 15, 2023
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One thing that has helped me when that happens is to watch higher rated people play on YouTube, such as the Naroditsky speed run videos. When I start losing it is usually because I lose focus and stop thinking through positions. Hearing someone else talk about their thought process helps me get out of that.
bberks wrote:
One thing that has helped me when that happens is to watch higher rated people play on YouTube, such as the Naroditsky speed run videos. When I start losing it is usually because I lose focus and stop thinking through positions. Hearing someone else talk about their thought process helps me get out of that.
Same here, watching masters explain their games help when I tilt or stop thinking
Ever since I started this has been my experience!
I started played chess in Dec and have had a great time learning the game. I slowly worked from from the 500s to a peak of 810 as of last week. Since then I’ve won about 5% of my games and slid all the way back to 650 elo and I feel like I suddenly have no idea how to play well. Does this happen to anyone else? How did you turn things back around?