ChessMasteryOfficial wrote:
Embrace it
This man is the real life version of the devil on your shoulder, and he is telling you to keep going 😭
How to deal with tilt?
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#22 most gamblers quit just before they are about to become multi trillionaire.
OttoInfieldHarm wrote:
I use the three-game rule for when to stop playing: no matter how many games I've played so far, if I lose three games in a row I stop playing for the day.
I don't like giving up and try to fix it, even if the issue is being super tired. I have lots of 10x losing streaks 
So you're on the money with that advice.
Sep 13, 2024
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#26
take breaks. it helped me. I was tilting hard. I was about 1300 bullet and recently climbed back up to 1700 after resting my brain and eyes for a couple of days.
Aug 19, 2025
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#27
Tilt, in chess, is very normal. I understand how one feels after losing a couple of consecutive games, and feeling that you are total trash. I have been there myself. Just today, I lost 4 rapid games(out of last 5), which brought my rating down to 1950 from 1982. And yes, I AM feeling the anger, of having played such trash games, making blunders like I am 600. But at the end of the day, that's how life is. My best advice for you is to take a break from chess. Just don't touch chess for a couple of days, or weeks(depending on how bad you have tilted). And I GUARANTEE that you'll come back stronger. BTW, props to you for reaching 920.
Feb 28, 2026
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#29
Don't know. I managed it to get to 545 rapid and just few days later I lost over 100 points.
I don't know where the record is at my 400-600 level but I could be up there. Now it's my goal to get as low as possible. Sometimes I like losing especially by checkmate. I don't care about the result when I play. When I have zero expectation I play better than under pressure where I crack every time.
I just want to play for fun and take every game as an adventure. I can't learn openings because I have to take medication every day for my mental health that clouds my mind, makes it hard to calculate. That's why I'm thankful I got to 545. Many games around 500 are very hard for me.
I use the three-game rule for when to stop playing: no matter how many games I've played so far, if I lose three games in a row I stop playing for the day.