Tactics/Puzzle tilt a thing?

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JDeFranza
Maybe long week with lack of sleep, but not a whole lot different than most weeks.. I went from 2,200+ to almost dropping below 2,000 with puzzles. It’s like I can’t solve literally anything.

Is this a thing? Lol

I know psychologically I felt accomplished hitting 2,200 and it’s like I’m going through the motions with these puzzles lately. Very strange.

Planning to take rest of night and tomorrow off from them and maybe chess in general and see if that helps.

Anyone else experience this?

Martin_Stahl
JDeFranza wrote:
Maybe long week with lack of sleep, but not a whole lot different than most weeks.. I went from 2,200+ to almost dropping below 2,000 with puzzles. It’s like I can’t solve literally anything.

Is this a thing? Lol

I know psychologically I felt accomplished hitting 2,200 and it’s like I’m going through the motions with these puzzles lately. Very strange.

Planning to take rest of night and tomorrow off from them and maybe chess in general and see if that helps.

Anyone else experience this?

 

Yes. If I'm not in the right mindset, I'll barely vsee things or calculate well. I'll tilt hundreds of points and fight to get back close to where I was. Right now I'm still a way from my peak, but haven't been doing puzzles recently.

goldenbeer
200 fluctuation in tactics can happen in 3-4 days of playing careless.

Always after a hard work and getting out of your comfort zone, you may play less careful because you are exhausted from what you did to reach that new milestone (not just in chess after every achievement in life this happens to most people). So take it as a normal drop, you will go back to 2200 and higher.
OscarZouXD
Hi uwu
JDeFranza
Appreciate the input! Glad to hear it’s a thing apparently.
colorfulcake

yeah it’s definitely a thing… one day I couldn’t solve anything and went from 2800 to 2500

JDeFranza
Well come to find out I have a fever. Very interesting how maybe there is some correlation with being sick and parts of the brain going into rest mode thinking chess in not an important function right now.

How rude!! Lol

I’m like mind blown feeling like my super power tactics ability is gone over night.

Will be be curious to see how fast things come back when I’m recovered. No chess and tilting my ratings until then.
aanval22

Oh yeah, this happens to me a lot, I sometimes lose focus and drop a lot of tactics points.