When you win your rating goes up. You find stronger players and lose until your rating drops low enough you find weak players.
Rinse and repeat.
Why people keep bouncing back and fourth from ELO
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I don't really care about winning or losing anymore. I play because I enjoy my wins and don't mind my losses.
It feels like somedays I cannot lose. Easily climb 100 points. Then the next day. I cannot win. It feels like all of them are cheating and i drop those 100 points. It’s predictable
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Personally I'm not a huge fan of the rating system and prefer to go by ratio and looking at who you've beaten.
Lots of different factors behind wins and losses. Sometimes higher rated players have bad games, sometimes lower rated players play very accurately. Tiredness is definitely behind some of my losing streaks. These days, I set an alarm and play for 90 minutes or so, then take a break from playing, but sometimes study openings/end games etc or watch tutorials. Just recently I've had a lot of other non-chess stuff on my mind, and it's really affected my focus. I started playing really inaccurately and not at all mindfully, hanging pieces, missing key moves etc. So I started to limit my time at the board, take breaks and stop if my mind was clearly wandering. My elo has started to come back, not all the way to my highest ever, but getting there.
But losing games is all part of it. I don't especially mind losing games, although if I've thrown away a good position and then blundered - it kind of stings. But the most important thing is - to learn something from each game. Mind you I do wonder how many times I need to leave my queen in front of my king before I properly learn *not to do that*...
Back and forth, if you don't mind.
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One thing that bugs a lot of chess players is that we keep bouncing back winning then losing. Here are some reasons why:
1. you are afraid you'll lose
2. you play late at night, or you are tired when you play
3. you are about to get to a certain ELO, and you keep playing, then you start losing, but keep playing and losing
To STOP this here are some things to do
1. play i the middle of the day, or at a time besides morning, or night
2. make a schedule of when you will play, and how much you will play
3. learning openings, and practicing middle games (a lot of people play well openings, and endgames, but to win, you need to be good at middle game strategy)