Chess giving me mental health problems. I quit.

I started chess a year ago and have been practicing daily, but no matter how hard I try my rating isn't going up consistently.

I'm so sick and tired of being tilted, depressed, anxious, angry, etc. Because of this stupid game. It's not worth it.

I've invested hundreds of hours for nothing. My rating hit 1500 and amazed there for like 2 weeks then i lost my abilities to play chess and I made this new account and amateurs at 1100 to 1200 are beating me.

I personally feel like there are tons of cheaters on this site but I can't prove it so I'll just blame myself and consider myself too stupid to achieve even a beginner rating of 1500.

Im finding myself constantly angry and sad throughout the day because of the tilt. 

I also blame some people here who keep advising everyone that anyone can get better. That's simply not true past a certain point. I'm playing 1200 players who are getting 80 percent games 0 blunders. Like if that's a f**king beginner, then people at 1800 should be grandmasters.

This game is trash and I give up. It's literally ruined my life and I get sick just looking at a chess board now.

I guess it's only for gifted people or people who are content sucking at it for life. Peace.

theres an insane amount of sandbagging around blitz 500-600 so i suppose the same goes for rapid for a slightly higher elo range

https://youtu.be/Bfr6urnvCpo

1500 is an Intermediate - advanced player rating, not beginner. People who say 1500 is a beginner have no idea how the chess rating system works, 400 is a beginner. Anyways, You should play chess for the fun of it, not for the rating. The rating is meaningless. So, lets say you would reach 1800 now. And then what? Fine, you can say you are a pretty good chess player. But do you think its really worth this so much hard work?

Play chess for the fun of it, chess is not a chore.

Hey, you're not stupid because of a game. Search for Oppenheimer vs Einstein game and you'll see that chess isn't a measure for anything. I don't have much experience in this game, but there's a ton of factors that can stop you from getting better at the game, and one of them is mental health, you need to be cool headed to play your best chess, and need to know how to lose (and to learn from your losses, everyone loses). Take care

I will probably quit too

1200 player is not beginner.. I'm a 700 player and 2 of my most recent games are above 80% because I've been trying to practice good fundamentals. You're currently rated 1000, it will probably take me a while to reach that if at all so be thankful. If it's causing you mental frustration, take a break, or start a lichess acct and play for fun on the side. I also do this.

Well the op quit right after posting. Nothing much left to do here folks, except

Bye

800 blitz is just 1400 1500 rapid players who dont play blitz and just play casually but 500 range has alot of sand baggers like 1600s plus on new accs just for the sake of being toxic i seen some of the games and no way a 600 would find those moves

:) Im stuck at 450 (in my other acc) i just made a new one lets see what happens

ok

Cjess

OP, I know the feeling and been there many times. Hopefully you bounce back with a new account.

I keep hitting new peaks and follow up with a losing streak, it’s part of the game but you will bounce back if you can focus in improvement, not ratings because ratings follow performance and performance follows improvement.

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I recently made a video on addressing chess tilt from the root of the problem. It might help you. Similarly, a few weeks ago I made a video on the Stop-Loss System and how this can help you prevent losing a lot of chess rating.

I hope both of these resources help

I'll also include a Blog Post I wrote on chess.com regarding motivation:

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/chess-motivation-through-purpose

Someone lock this

Wow

just forget it hes gone