I hit 1600 and it went downhill from that

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Avatar of MisterBright1696

After quitting chess for about a year or so, I came back to it. I climbed from around 1450-ish to 1600 in a week. However, I am dropping in elo at the moment. I've been stuck in 1500s for weeks and right now I thought I could climb back up, but I dropped below 1500. 

During the weeks in between, I picked up chess books, checked out how the London System works, etc. Right now, I'm really frustrated, because I have beaten players at around 1700-1800 at chess.com, but, for some reason, I am struggling with players at my elo.

What are some ways to improve in chess? Why am I stuck at this elo after climbing to 1600? If I happen to get my elo back, how do I prevent getting "stuck" again?

Avatar of hrarray
Same for me but I’m stuck at 1790s, I know I can do better but I always make one bad move/lose one game and I start tilting and making bad moves.
Avatar of ChessMasteryOfficial

That's normal. Check out this picture:

You are at a plateau. Then you make a progress and hit plateau again. But new plateau is on a higher level than the previous one. And so on.

Avatar of Jalex13
Relatable.
Avatar of jdenzzzz

Relatable too.

Avatar of BurraAbhishek

Same here, but it's dropping to 1500 then 1400 every time I try to climb back up to 1600 bullet. But it isn't stuck there, it's free-falling with no idea how to recover faster to the point I just regret playing bullet and now just want to close my account for my own sake or hide my ratings to stop rage-tilting. Then I try to go for more only to hang pieces left right and center

Avatar of BurraAbhishek

And now my network switches off in winning positions and I lose two on the trot