What to do when progress slows down

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"What do one have to do, to go from 1750 to 2000?"
++ Analyse your lost games and study annotated grandmaster games

"Should I start to deap study openings?"
++ That stops your progress, a bottomless pit for time and energy with no reward

"Like I know some openings I struggle more with then others like when people play queen gambit and I play as black and they push there queen pawns and try to go to attacking my base chain at the queenside."
++ Analyse your lost games. If you play 1 e4 as white, then you have gained experience with 1 e4 from both the white side and the black side. For 1 d4 you have less experience so it is logical you struggle more. The answer is not to change openings, but to analyse your lost games and to study annotated grandmaster games.

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My second game versus the 2000 rated player in daily finished today.

https://www.chess.com/game/daily/413554269

Well the last move, yeah I was tired after work and yeah. No comments =)

However during the game, like he push all pawns and his king is still safe while my king is unsafe. I did not know how to protect the king when getting closer to the end and all my pieces was kinda misplaced. I tried to open up on queenside but at that point it was already to late.

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Here is me playing a 960 daily game versus someone close to my own rating. Game ended today.
I missed opportunities to get more pawns, I just rushed to endgame because I was up a pawn and wanted to kill my opponents counter play. Actually it looked like he could draw the game there in the end. But we both misplayed the endgame tbh.
Man I feel so trash at chess. Like when you have a game that went your way and your happy with it then you check the engine and then you realise the mistakes. And the engine be like, "nah man your not good your trash" happy

Anyway I thought I should add a game versus someone closer to my own rating to. As comparison to playing the 2000 rated guy.

Like taking the knight with knight is a blunder, instead of taking the pawn. Taking the pawn wins of course a pawn but then the endgame gets more complicated because he has way more moves that I have to consider but if I take his knight then it is king versus king where I am up a pawn and should be winning. Now I did make mistake later that let him have a chance of drawing.

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My third game versus that 2000 rated player. This is the closest I got to a draw. I failed the endgame. Now I am gonna take a break from playing 2000 rated people. The preasure is to high, I get exhausted from chess playing so strong players even do I know that it will most likely speed up my progress. But to only lose and be under so much preasure takes the fun away from Chess for me.
 
At least I learned that it seems to be a little bit easier to play versus a stronger player if I keep the position more open.