I'm 505, and I can't seem to beat them consistently. I can make 1 mistake, 0 blunders, 0 misses or even 0 mistakes 0 blunders 0 misses and I still will lose, it dosent make sense. I don't know why I'm losing to 500 ELO's and everyone 1000 higher I play against says I should be 700-800.
It really does NOT make sense and its making me fustrated.
You resigned too early in your last game. Games often turn back and forth.
As one of the 1,000s that has played with you, I think the 'don't resign' advice is very true, even at 1,000+ level (or even as high as 1500!) people can make serious mistakes in the middlegame or endgame and lose won positions. Also, there's the psychological impact of having lost a lot of games, just play normally and try to forget about rating, there's a setting that allows you to hide ratings in the app, you can maybe try to play another time format and then return to rapid if you feel a bit too burned out.
I had my own kind of crisis when I broke the 1,000 elo barrier, I knew I could beat 1,100s and whatever but I kept losing until I got down to 940-950, took me a month to recover the rating and especially at first, it was just a psychological blockade, I played more hastily, more aggressive moves than I'd normally play, and that's why I also made more mistakes. If I had just stopped after losing a game or two, then tried again with a fresh mindset, I wouldn't have had those losing streaks.
I'm 505, and I can't seem to beat them consistently. I can make 1 mistake, 0 blunders, 0 misses or even 0 mistakes 0 blunders 0 misses and I still will lose, it dosent make sense. I don't know why I'm losing to 500 ELO's and everyone 1000 higher I play against says I should be 700-800.
It really does NOT make sense and its making me fustrated.