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How does someone just drop 55 rating points when I was winning 5 or more games in a row. It sucks to lose all my improvement that quickly and now whenever I play I just feel like I make easy mistakes I wouldn’t use to out of frustration. I love this game but getting better and signs of improvement are what push me through and all these signs of me just sucking makes me want to quit. Why play if it feels like nothing I’m doing is working right?
Sometimes you gotta go down to go up
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Sep 10, 2020
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#4
All you're playing is speed chess. You're not going to improve by moving fast.
Sep 10, 2020
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#5
wait till you drop 200 points which happens to me and many others. i do manage to get it back though. for someone to really improve you must first be consistent at your current level then slowly rank up.
Nice
Sep 10, 2020
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#7
don't worry, tilting is a natural part of speed chess, u shouldn't worry bout it. if u wanna get better, get a coach. recommendations: WFM @nicecream18, NM @canwedoit. also, play longer time controls, get chess.com diamond membership to unlock all the lessons. trust me, it is worth it!
It’s just rating, and if you win 5 in a row before it it’s not much of a loss, but you should play more rapid and think on each move for a long time.
GlonzoHonzo wrote:
How does someone just drop 55 rating points when I was winning 5 or more games in a row. It sucks to lose all my improvement that quickly and now whenever I play I just feel like I make easy mistakes I wouldn’t use to out of frustration. I love this game but getting better and signs of improvement are what push me through and all these signs of me just sucking makes me want to quit. Why play if it feels like nothing I’m doing is working right?
If you are school aged like and me and just going back, school could be the reason why. It has been making me really tired.
You're not getting worse at chess you're just losing some games. Try not to conflate your rating and ability. Context is important. If the average rating of your opponent (it's in the stats) is going up then you've been beating opponents much weaker than yourself. A better metric to track is your accuracy, mistakes and blunders. If these are going down then your making better decisions so your chess is improving.
Look at my stats, I suddenly drop, feel sad, then suddenly rise to a new high.
Thanks guys playing slower games really helped me get through my rut fast games definitely weren’t what I needed to grow
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