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Becca_Baxter

Feb 4, 2025

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#21

Thank you for your replies. I shall persevere. It does seem like I have been both having and off-period and also that I have got myself over-rated by a run of good luck as well as perhaps some good play.

Becca

FM WorldChessMentor

Feb 4, 2025

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#22

Becca_Baxter wrote:

For quite a while, I was winning games and got to my highest rating since I started on chess.com winning loads of games with very few losses over quite a streak. Now I've played eight games in a row over three days, lost them all and now my rating has plummeted by not far short of 100 points. I was making steady progress generally and without warning, it has all fallen apart.

Was the climb a series of flukes, is the fall a series of bad calls and I'm just falling back to where my rating should really be? Am I just useless at chess?

I need guidance. Should I just stop playing for a while and go back to the books, or should I persevere...or even just give up chess for a few weeks?

Stupid game anyway

Becca

Hit me up, I'd be glad to help!

ChessMasteryOfficial

Feb 4, 2025

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#23

Learn and apply the most important principles of chess. - (core of my teaching)
Always blunder-check your moves.
Solve tactics in the right way.
Analyze your games.
Study games of strong players.
Learn how to be more psychologically resilient.
Work on your time management skills.
Get a coach if you can.

SnrWoody

Feb 5, 2025

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#24

Speaking from my experience. I go out and I’ll try learning something new and that’s where my ELO plummets - I lost about 200 points on one occasion from 1000 to 800 which really hurt as 1000 is always a target when starting out. It’s a rinse and repeat cycle, we’re at the beginning of the journey and it’s got to be a step back to move forward sometimes. I just tanked in blitz as I’m trying to play/think quicker than rapid, but I do feel like it’s a good learning experience and worth the hit.

hptl4737

Feb 5, 2025

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#25

I lost 7 games in a row yesterday! its a bit suspicious lol

luckypick66

Feb 5, 2025

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#26

I improved sooo much since I joined chess.com, but since about a week I feel like I became so much worse, or maybe just getting that much better opponents, or both. I feel totally lost, I became so good at puzzles, but feel like I have no idea how to create those nice puzzles during real games, I only seem to be able to create terrible scenarios for myself. I feel stuck, and I’d really appreciate some useful advice on how to move on and get stronger again🥲🙏

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 5, 2025

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#27

Snowchlobe wrote:

11 i am not an online player. if you're suspicious of me then play me in 10 second chess.

10 second is crazy

Ysegrim

Feb 5, 2025

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#28

Becca Baxter,

sometimes you learn more from a game you lost, so don't worry about the rating.

Enjoy the game

mpaetz

Feb 5, 2025

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#29

Becca--This sort of thing is very common. You learn from your games, get better, beat a lot of players near your former strength, get an higher rating and are paired against stronger opponents. They see and understand more than you do, but playing better players will improve your own understanding of the game, and after a while you will start to beat the better players. Sometimes it takes some time stuck at a new rating level before your mind absorbs and integrates the new information, so you might get your rating stuck for awhile, then make another advance.

Chess147

Feb 6, 2025

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#30

Some days I start off on a losing streak and wonder what happened overnight and will I ever win a game again It can be very demoralising especially if it happens soon after a nice winning streak with some memorable checkmates when it feels like I can't lose. It's curious how some days I can play a game and feel completely switched on and other days I can't achieve that same level of board vision. I feel my game has improved a lot since I started looking at the board with my peripheral vision. It reduces the amount of eye movement and I feel able to absorb the position more easily now.

It works best with the knight which can take a lot of time and brain power to evaluate their movements and what mischief they can do so now when I look at a knight I stare at the square it's sitting on and all the squares it can attack come in to focus as I glare at the piece. It works the same with the other pieces and in my peripheral vision I can see all the squares it can attack and has helped speed up how I select candidate moves.

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 6, 2025

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#31

Optimissed wrote:

Snowchlobe wrote:

NIVEK1000 wrote:

Snowchlobe is hot...as for YOU, Abtectous, some would say that YOU are "low-rated", so quit complaining about people complaining...

1. i'm underage.

2. can we get back to the topic of the post?

"Hiiii. Sorry I'm not accepting friend requests unless we've played a game before or you support Everton "

I'm overage. So I've been a lifelong (nearly) Newcastle United supporter and in the second game I ever saw, the Everton goalie, Gordon West, was sent off for punching the Newcastle captain, Jim Iley. Therefore I had a bit of a negative thing about Everton. Then I was at Liverpool University and all my mates supported Liverpool.

However, when I returned to the NW after living in Canada, Northumberland and London for a bit, one of the chess clubs I played for in the late 1990s was EEC in Fazakerley. And I was friends with people like Posh Billy, who'd been a submariner in WW2 and Billy Melia and basically I have never enjoyed a chess club like I enjoyed EEC and I've known a lot of chess clubs, having sometimes been a member of three at once. I was playing on boards one or two, we did ok in the Merseyside League 1st division (sometimes second division) and I really loved being back in the Pool, even if it was just Thursday evenings.

And they all supported Everton. And now I love to see Everton win.

bro ur my friend?

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 6, 2025

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#32

Chess147 wrote:

Some days I start off on a losing streak and wonder what happened overnight and will I ever win a game again It can be very demoralising especially if it happens soon after a nice winning streak with some memorable checkmates when it feels like I can't lose. It's curious how some days I can play a game and feel completely switched on and other days I can't achieve that same level of board vision. I feel my game has improved a lot since I started looking at the board with my peripheral vision. It reduces the amount of eye movement and I feel able to absorb the position more easily now.

It works best with the knight which can take a lot of time and brain power to evaluate their movements and what mischief they can do so now when I look at a knight I stare at the square it's sitting on and all the squares it can attack come in to focus as I glare at the piece. It works the same with the other pieces and in my peripheral vision I can see all the squares it can attack and has helped speed up how I select candidate moves.

relatable ngl.

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 6, 2025

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#33

Now I'm at my rating peak!

Snowchlobe

Feb 7, 2025

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#34

41 yay we're going to thrash liverpool next week

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 7, 2025

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#35

bruh.

Goose2999happy

Feb 7, 2025

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#36

I’m only 400-800 on my Live rating but I’m pretty good

AGC-Gambit_YT

Feb 7, 2025

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#37

cap

CMVertwitch

Feb 7, 2025

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#38

The cheating is just bad in this server it’s all

Over the place and they are not doing anything except talking and showing reports that lead to no solution just a waste of money

Hoffaday

Feb 8, 2025

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#39

I’ll tell you what you do. You forget about your stupid rating and play your game.

Imagine all the things you’ll never learn being adventurous on the board just because you were too scared to try stuff because, “oh but my rating”.

Cast it aside, forget about it and never worry about it again.

Chess147

Feb 8, 2025

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#40

I've started looking at the timestamps of my lost games to see where I'm spending the most thinking time. It's early days (I only thought of it yesterday) but I think scrutinising the timestamps of games will help reinforce good habits.