Don't give up! We all have good and bad times. All I suggest is that you keep practicing tactics and being more patient with your moves. A lot of chess is repetition. Puzzles and understanding checkmate types will help a lot. (Some basic openings as well)
I don't like to play chess any more
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Nov 8, 2024
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Try practicing some different formats or different openings for a while. It shakes things up, makes it interesting again, and you might discover you like it better as your primary go-to.
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Hightider wrote:
I used to enjoy slowly climbing up the ladder and playing better with time, now since a few weeks I just fall down further and further and I play really stupid moves despite not doing anything different. Went fom 800 to 450, and I keep losing games.
I am out. Game's not for me. I enjoyed the first year or year and a half, now it's over. I can't deal with getting worse and worse. Why did I get stupider? I don't know.
Chess is addictive and if you have the will power, quit while you can. Personally I think it's actually a bad/evil game. You read the comments and you see how it damages people mentally, makes them miserable, depressed. People bang on about their elo rating, like its all that matters in life, then you have the a holes who think being good at chess makes you intelligent. Some of the messages, even when you lose a game are vile, were these people like that before or has chess turned them into Narcissistic a holes?
In any skill, progress isn’t always linear. After a phase of improvement, there are often plateaus—or even regressions—before the next jump in skill level. Sometimes, slipping back a bit is the brain’s way of re-organizing knowledge to get stronger in the long term. It’s frustrating, but knowing this is common can make it feel a bit less personal.