sadge lol
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... NOOOOOO my mortal enemy has fallen by the hand of another...
btw we're still at about the same level
bruh u tilted 150 points in a single day how is that remotely possible
is gm_cheese_player ur new dad

bruh u tilted 150 points in a single day how is that remotely possible
is gm_cheese_player ur new dad
150 point drop in an hour is easily possible with 30 sec. bullet games. Luckily bullet chess is also easier to recover points with too. Part of the reason I stick with rapid chess more is because this kind of common 150-ish swings seems like a lot to mentally handle. I'm already nervous enough with dropping 20 or 30 points in one sitting for Rapid chess

I know the feeling rip. Last time I was at 1932 rapid was Halloween of last year...then it crashed like 150 points (In Rapid! This takes way longer to recover). After a lot of ups and downs but overall slow ups, it took me until just this month until I fully recovered and passed that amount again. This is about 9 months of chess work to recover from one "drop" that occurred in about 3 days to drop.
This rating and drop isn't even special though. I can't tell how many times similar has happened to various degrees already; I've lost count! Chess improvement is a process of gaining rating slowly over time, dropping a bunch, slowly recovering then a big drop and slowly regaining it back...and you get the idea. It is just part of the learning process and completely normal.
I didn't say it makes it mentally easy to handle, but long-term you should go up if you keep learning and doing all the "right things." It is just that the "long-term" usually takes longer than most think and requires a lot more work and dedication than imagined.
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