Thoughts on how to manage decreases in performance
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Are you devoting your best hours to Bullet Chess or just playing during down time? I think most players on this site use Chess for relaxation so we shouldn't be surprised that were not playing as well as we could. In longer matches, you'll cycle mental activity with periods of down time, so things even out but in shorter matches, your initial level of acuity will likely determine the outcome of the match
So I play a stupid amount of bullet and have begun to identify the patterns of decreased performance, it is super consistent, often times their is very little cause other than sheer fact that you start playing like dog crap for really no reason. Your opponents start finding amazing tactics even though they are objectively trash. This is my trick or at least what I'm going to do to mange tilt so you don't elo chase.
1. Your moves feel off and your intuition is just garbage. You blunder every game really for no reason
2. Your opponents are seeing tactics your not seeing despite the fact that your higher or equal in terms of calculation abilities
3. You have weird mouse slips almost for no reason my theory is the brain does this on purpose to self fulfill the tilt
4. You are getting outplayed in simple positions
5. You play reactive chess and are finding hard times finding simple moves
6. Your not calculating accurately or badly.
7. You are not doing reasonable moves
8. A Big one is when your opponents are getting very natural positions out of the blue and you put up no resistance.
9. Your opponent can play bad moves and your unable to punish it
10. Your board vision is simply not there
Simplest solution, when these things appear if you lose more than 4 games take a break and comeback refreshed do not play for more than an hour or two and comeback when your mind is better and your board vision is back to normal. This will save you hours of elo chasing and maintain your emotional well being. Tilt rage is a thing. You wil chase that elo until you feel better. Manage your tilt or it's self destructive to improvement my 2 cent. NOTE: Your opponents have no gotten better you are just playing like dog crap.