Why do I suck at this game so much

I was on a roll until 2 days ago. I was fine, chilling with a blitz ELO of 891. And now im on a losing streak and within 2 days my elo in 764. 11 game losing streak, including somehow losing to 600 rated player. Its really stressing me out. Am I just on a bad streak or do I just suck.

You don't suck, I played you in blitz and you are a great competitor. Just focus on the game and you will succeed. I went from 1120 to the 910 once!

Tilt happens. Back in January I went from 1090 rapid to 1008. It was so utterly demoralizing, because the downward trend didn't just encompass a day or two, but several weeks. I was lifted out of it when everything suddenly just clicked, and I then started winning a lot of games.

The most important thing to do, especially for blitz, is to take a break. Don't try to win back your elo just yet. Stress releases chemicals in your brain that make it difficult to think creatively, so you'll end up repeating the same mistakes if you don't give yourself a chance for it to dissipate. instead you should wait 2 days or so before coming back. Keep yourself sharp during this time by doing puzzles or playing against the computer, just don't do anything online. This will reset your mind and bring your morale back up.

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Well said, FriedQuiver. Btw, we have similar stats; care for a game sometime?

read my comment in this thread:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/getting-worse-13 

You aren't alone, I got back ranked in a rapid game against a 500 a while ago. Sometimes I lose like 50 rating and a day. It happens to all of us.

You don't suck bro

I'm having the same issue! I really don't think that you suck. I got sick and it really affected my performance, it sent me on a downward tilt. I'm going to take more time out and do some lessons, why don't you spend some time studying and not playing for a bit, just take the pressure off.

Well, tilting in chess is a real thing and it happens more often than you'd think, and it's a slippery slope because you start losing  and then start playing against weaker opponents that in theory you should beat but you're making rookie mistakes, and most of us when tilted started playing super fast without thinking and starts hanging even more pieces, and resigning really soon in the game after a small mistake...

Add that to the fact that 200-ish rating points difference for a quick game is essentially two people at the same level as there are many factors that play a role whether you win or lose, you're bound to get very frustrated.... and it's going to be harder to get your rating points back.. 

I mean first of all it's blitz (sometimes maybe rapid?), more mistakes are bound to happen

Second of all most of us we are playing games, not matches

Third, you could fall for some opening prep

Fourth, style of play definitely plays a role, certain people do better against a specific style

fifth, person could be having a bad day, tilted, drunk, inspired, etc..

It's important that you're having fun when playing, usually a tilted player might not be having a great time. If you only have fun when you win, I suggest tic tac toe lol

although in all honesty, if you learn opening principles, basic checkmate pattern, stop hanging pieces and learn how to trade down when you have material advantage you can relatively easily get to at least 1000 elo rather quickly... but then again a master will say to me that if i learn so and so I can easily get to 2000 lol

As the people above said, take a couple days off, do some puzzles, play against a bot, maybe a longer time format... good luck with the tilt

Longer time format. I started playing 1hr - 2hr and I improved because I stopped worrying about time

That's chess. 

I mean I was at 540 just under a month ago... now I'm chilling at 771. Your condition isn't permanent, dude. Just take a break from anything chess-related for a week and then come back to it. 

Rub some dirt on it and get back in there champ! Everyone goes through it. 

Technically adderall vyvanse are somewhat similar... and let me tell you boy those badboys will help you focus

Dear MaythefourthYT,

I am a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one general way to learn. First of all, you have to discover your biggest weaknesses in the game and start working on them. The most effective way for that is analysing your own games. Of course, if you are a beginner, you can't do it efficiently because you don't know too much about the game yet. There is a built-in engine on chess.com which can show you if a move is good or bad but the only problem that it can't explain you the plans, ideas behind the moves, so you won't know why is it so good or bad.

You can learn from books or Youtube channels as well, and maybe you can find a lot of useful information there but these sources are mostly general things and not personalized at all. That's why you need a good coach sooner or later if you really want to be better at chess. A good coach can help you with identifying your biggest weaknesses and explain everything, so you can leave your mistakes behind you. Of course, you won't apply everything immediately, this is a learning process (like learning languages), but if you are persistent and enthusiastic, you will achieve your goals.

In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames). If you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. My students really like it because the lessons are not boring (because we talk about more than one areas within one lesson) and they feel the improvement on the longer run. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.

I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck for your chess games!