I seem to be in a pattern: I will win, and seem to play quite well, a whole string of 5-7 games and then lose catastrophically 7 out of 10 even against players rated 75-100 points below me? Does anyone else ever have this happen to them? Any suggestions? My current remedy is to stop after two straight losses and doing some lessons or tactics then resuming 48 hrs. later
I think it happens to everybody once in a while.
You should look at a table of rating differences and expected results. According to a Winning Probabilities calculator, a 75 point difference only gives you a 60% expectation of winning and 100 points gives you only 64%.
I seem to be in a pattern: I will win, and seem to play quite well, a whole string of 5-7 games and then lose catastrophically 7 out of 10 even against players rated 75-100 points below me? Does anyone else ever have this happen to them? Any suggestions? My current remedy is to stop after two straight losses and doing some lessons or tactics then resuming 48 hrs. later