Last year was around 1200 without any serious strategy learning. Then I had a long pause, but a month ago I've got addicted again. But I've realized the competitors at that level are much harder this year. My rank have fallen to 900 (!!!). Now I've started to take lessons, to get the pace again, but I'm facing opponents with almost perfect games in this level. Like this:
https://www.chess.com/live/game/54945361181
Do I feel right, something has changed in the level of the competition?
because they start everyone at 1500.