Lost over 160 Points in a few weeks. The losing streak won't stop what the hell is happening?

It's frustrating as hell. I just don't get it. I lose to everyone. This is freaking me out like hell. It's like it doesn't matter who you are, you don't do any mistakes against me. I'm angry af!!!

I'm pretty sure you'd have a win against me, just to cheer you up. I was watching your last game against the Filipino. 1. You gave away your knight for free when the game was in the balance. 2. You moved your rooks around a very crowded central zone, without a plan. 3. You took the obvious pawn bait at move 35, leaving yourself wide open to checkmate. Having said that, your opponent had a very strange pause of 2-3 minutes, checking Stockfish no doubt, and came up with a deadly rook maneuvre. When I see the Philippines flag: ABORT.

Don't worry....just take a break for a couple of months from playing and focus on watching chess lessons....by time you will greatly improve until beating your own caliber of opponents becomes a peice of cake (and thus your morale increase

Continue: )and you can go on playing until you hit the next wall again (losing constantly all over again) at which time you do the same thing : 1-stop playing for 1 to 3 months 2-through that time, docus on chess lessons in all categories 3- come back and it's all easy!

It happens with all of us.. and really that is the way everyone improves....its just that your chess knowledge and intuition becomes not enough to beat a certain caliper of opponents...all you have to do is increase your kno by chess lessons and you are good to go! Hope that was helpful!

Reported.

The only thing that matters below 2000 are tactics.

I have played for 10 years, over 6000 games. You will likely drop 200 points when tired and when your mind is not focused. When you get more sleep, and concentrate better, your rating will go up again.

I disagree. Even below 2000, strategy is an important part of the game.

Of course, if you are tired/unfocussed and your tactics fall apart, then it is true that everything will fall apart

Strategy in not as important as tactics at our level, in my opinion. It’s important, sure, but people just hang tactics all the time.

Thank you all for the feedback. It really helps and cheers me up a bit.

Couple of months? So much? Are you sure? @ByzantineGlory

you're on a tilt and it happens to everyone so stop freaking out like its 10x worse then you expect

Tactics is undoubtedly the top priority, but strategy has it’s importance too.

And many beginners inaccurately presume that they are not fundamentally interconnected.

As Fischer famously put it “Tactics flow from a superior position”

As long as you use basic strategic concepts it’s good enough.


- Making a battery to trade off the opponent’s strong fianchettoed bishop.

- Striking back in the center as a response to a kingside attack when possible

- If no obvious plan presents itself, try improving your least active piece in the position

- actively looking for opportunities to get pieces (especially knights) to outpost squares

- Knowing to put rooks on open files and preemptively putting them on files about to be opened up

- Don’t block your bishops behind pawns unless it is the only way to avoid a greater concession (i.e loss of material, impending checkmate) strong bishops can work wonders, and many weaker players have a hard time spotting threats on the long diagonals.

I know, because that lack of alertness has cost me many games when I was in your rating range.

In fact, if you employ all of these, you’ll most probably have a decent leg up in terms of strategic play compared to your opponents, which will inevitably result in them no longer being your peers in the long run. :)

And as we both know, when your opponent has a strategically worse position, tactical opportunities are more likely to arise.

But, you really do need to crack down harder on tactics, as these determine the vast majority of games at our level, in fact I’ve seen class A players say that the same largely holds true for them.

yeah I was just like you.. I lost 200 points in a day or two.. gained 100 of it back the same day, then over 2-3 weeks, got to 1000!

Swampy-gum. What is stockfish? I’m coming across players with 1000/1100 ratings playing unbelievable strong?