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damientayjj

you should focus in rapid 15|10 as you can think more carefully rather than blitz and bullet which is 1min or 5min. More time, More thinking. happy.png

Stil1
AunTheKnight wrote:

Okay, thank you, @Stil1! Wonderful advice. I was just on vacation, and I wasn’t allowed to study… or play. Yikes… I guess that’s what happens when I play in secret. I do analyse tournament games using the method you described, but I guess I should do the same about online rapid as well. 

A secret chess player?! Scandalous. tongue.png

On a serious note, I believe you should analyze every game you play (if you want to improve, that is).

Because every game will have mistakes to learn from, and/or new ideas to be found. But if you don't actively look for these things in every game, they will remain invisible to you.

Make it a habit to immediately review/analyze each game, after it ends (if you're able to).

Whenever a game ends: it's review time. Make it your routine.

This can be difficult for some players - especially when they just want to keep playing, playing, playing ... but if you're serious about improving, post-game review/analysis should be something you do every single time.

You might not notice any improvement in the short term, from doing this, but I promise that if you stick to it, you'll notice significant improvements over time. thumbup.png

Nennerb

Once you get the groove on, you rise your rating so you go against higher rated players; however, when you lose the groove, you are left without that winning feeling and are left to play against higher rated players. Just wait till u get your groove back; play on the other site for a bit (where you don't care about your rating). Go against a bunch of people, and when you start winning again (you get the groove back), come back to chess.com

eric0022
AunTheKnight wrote:

I haven’t won a game in days. Do I just take a break or something? Plus, my visualisation and calculation have become worse. Does a break solve this problem, or am I just getting worse?

 

Give yourself a break of course! One or two days would suffice.

eric0022
Stil1 wrote:
AunTheKnight wrote:

Okay, thank you, @Stil1! Wonderful advice. I was just on vacation, and I wasn’t allowed to study… or play. Yikes… I guess that’s what happens when I play in secret. I do analyse tournament games using the method you described, but I guess I should do the same about online rapid as well. 

A secret chess player?! Scandalous.

On a serious note, I believe you should analyze every game you play (if you want to improve, that is).

Because every game will have mistakes to learn from, and/or new ideas to be found. But if you don't actively look for these things in every game, they will remain invisible to you.

Make it a habit to immediately review/analyze each game, after it ends (if you're able to).

Whenever a game ends: it's review time. Make it your routine.

This can be difficult for some players - especially when they just want to keep playing, playing, playing ... but if you're serious about improving, post-game review/analysis should be something you do every single time.

You might not notice any improvement in the short term, from doing this, but I promise that if you stick to it, you'll notice significant improvements over time.

 

But we cannot tell for sure if Aun has sufficient time to spare for chess - he might have other priorities in life. Only Aun himself knows.

 

I believe that as long as Aun has sufficient time, he will likely play and review his games.

eric0022
sholom90 wrote:
AunTheKnight wrote:

Yes, but I blunder simple tactics…

And nobody above 1700 has ever done that before!

But, seriously, did you catch any of the world championship blitz?  You could get whiplash from watching the eval bar in some of those games!

 

Well, the person typing this text in blue has lost hundreds of hanging queens, rooks, bishops and knights, if not thousands.

eric0022
AunTheKnight wrote:

Yes, but I blunder simple tactics…

 

If it's in blitz and bullet, it's likely a transitional period (of trying to play faster time controls) rather than poor performance on your end.

JubilationTCornpone
Stil1 wrote:
AunTheKnight wrote:

Okay, thank you, @Stil1! Wonderful advice. I was just on vacation, and I wasn’t allowed to study… or play. Yikes… I guess that’s what happens when I play in secret. I do analyse tournament games using the method you described, but I guess I should do the same about online rapid as well. 

A secret chess player?! Scandalous.

On a serious note, I believe you should analyze every game you play (if you want to improve, that is).

Because every game will have mistakes to learn from, and/or new ideas to be found. But if you don't actively look for these things in every game, they will remain invisible to you.

Make it a habit to immediately review/analyze each game, after it ends (if you're able to).

Whenever a game ends: it's review time. Make it your routine.

This can be difficult for some players - especially when they just want to keep playing, playing, playing ... but if you're serious about improving, post-game review/analysis should be something you do every single time.

You might not notice any improvement in the short term, from doing this, but I promise that if you stick to it, you'll notice significant improvements over time.

I do think analyzing after every game helps a very large amount.  You see what sort of things you missed last time, and you see patterns in what you miss, and you (maybe) miss those things less.  I think it helps a lot.

KevinOSh

"You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player."
— José Raúl Capablanca

 

I often see posts essentially asking "Lost several games recently, do I need to stop playing?" and often there are replies saying "stop playing for x days" which isn't the best advice in my opinion.

The matching system is designed to match you against better players when you are on a winning streak and then against weaker players when you are on a losing streak. So on average after you have lost several games you will get an easier game that you will be able to win. It is not at all unusual to win say 8 games out of your last ten and then lose 8 or even 9 games out of your last ten. Obviously those games will be lost by mistakes but if you look at the analysis deeply you will probably see that in many of those game the opponents also played those games better than the ones that you previously won.

It is quite natural to lose some confidence when you hit a bad run. It happened to me recently, I felt like my game was a disaster, and when I looked through the insights feature to see how much worse I had been playing recently I found it was only 2% less accurately than when I felt I was playing well. The main difference was my opponents were punishing my mistakes harder than in the games I had previously won.

If you are on a losing streak it is a good idea to review those games and figure out how you can improve. Spending a bit more time studying and less time playing can make sense. But having a complete break from chess won't help. Just like if a sports player has a bad game, stopping playing altogether is not really going to help. What works better is to keep working hard to get back into best shape.

Derek-C-Goodwin

Go for a walk, watch a comedy, eat something nice. Have a good nights sleep!

AunTheKnight

Thank you all for the posts!

AunTheKnight
eric0022 wrote:

But we cannot tell for sure if Aun has sufficient time to spare for chess - he might have other priorities in life. Only Aun himself knows.

 

I believe that as long as Aun has sufficient time, he will likely play and review his games.

I usually do, but I was on vacation, meaning no chess. Stupid, I know. 

Larra2801

If you flip a coin 100 times, you're likely at some point to get six or seven heads in a row. And if you play 100 games of chess, you're likely to lose (or win) six or seven in a row. So maybe your losing streak is due to chance, or maybe you had a run of really good opponents. This too shall pass.

AunTheKnight
Gregorovich49 wrote:

If you flip a coin 100 times, you're likely at some point to get six or seven heads in a row. And if you play 100 games of chess, you're likely to lose (or win) six or seven in a row. So maybe your losing streak is due to chance, or maybe you had a run of really good opponents. This too shall pass.

Never thought of it that way. Thanks. 

pyrabbit

Maybe play 30min unrated so you don’t lose rating points and you can think longer 

 

pyrabbit

Or don’t play game’s, play with robots

Chessking4640

don’t play lots of games play at max 10 games it can lead to tilt missing simple tactics 

sholom90

True story -- as of this moment -- in my last 8 blitz games, I won seven of them.  In the 8 blitz games prior to that, I lost 7 of them.

Streaks happen.

AunTheKnight
sholom90 wrote:

True story -- as of this moment -- in my last 8 blitz games, I won seven of them.  In the 8 blitz games prior to that, I lost 7 of them.

Streaks happen.

Whoa.

AunTheKnight
Trophies100 wrote:

don’t play lots of games play at max 10 games it can lead to tilt missing simple tactics 

That’s a good number.