Losing

Lost 200 elo in 10 days! I play on other sites, I never have any major breakdowns like chess.com year after year I work hard get my elo up and bam bam bam. I know its not all me. Im a 1400+ elo and otb like 1700. Why does this site not let us get what we earn? I stopped using the "paywall" last year because of this. you can learn chess anywhere you pay money for bells and whistles associated with the games that you're playing in this site I find it total ridiculous what chess.com does for players unless you're paying I'll get an unfair play ELO points given to me every 3 or 4 months I'll get an email but out of 200 games I'll play 125 Bots or I'm not going to say the word it's just really really awful awful awful this place

You didnt read my post. I play other sites and otb and never have this problem.

Your peak ratings were when you started your account. You probably gained a lot of rating initially as chess.com was trying to calibrate your true elo. I doubt you are 1700 over the board, most people have a higher chess.com rating than otb rating.

What? Buddy been playing chess for decades. Your not contributing to the conversation. I simply I'm recognizing as I've heard many many times before that chess.com matches people and Bots with what they think is psychological to the player how can you Play Good chess when your opponent makes extraordinarily stupid stupid moves you can't focus and concentrate when you're learning because you don't understand so therefore you learn openings and you learn how to play the game and you stick to that plan when you're a new player it's very difficult that's why when you're young like I was at one time you learn to play chess over the board and I've been playing for decades I've played a lot of Chess on chess.com in the last 5 years I've been a member since 2010 I play a lot of other places and I recognize this trend is all that I am saying

Competition is tougher on chess.com than it used to be. The rating conversion chart on chessgoals suggests that chess.com and fide ratings are fairly comparable i.e. within 100-150 points.

At your rating, you really shouldn't worry about playing "bots." The issue is that there is more and stronger competition at lower elos than there used to be. I've seen games played by 800s now that I wouldn't have expected to see from 1400s years ago.

It's because chess.com's new choose-your-own initial rating system dragged down the global average rating. You've got some serious bruisers below 1200 now.

You've also got rating deflation to contend with. Look at almost any account made before 2017 and you'll see they're likely hundreds of rating below their highest. It's just harder now.