Feeling demoralised about not getting to 2000.

Hey, I've tried really hard not to fixate on rating for the last year and a half and that has finally seem to wear off...especially that I am nowhere near 2000 on rapid (bullet is a different story but that itself took insane patience and grinding...although I did rage a lot but surprisingly still have not thrown or broke my mouse).

It is becoming more and more demoralising knowing that people who start learning chess after me hit 2000 rapid before I do. I got close. I mean look at Tyler1...how does someone get away and almost reach 2000 rapid with a meme opening?!...it is just unfathomable to me....I feel as if I want to quit chess once again...yet I know I will come back at some point.

What advice can anyone give on one's journey to 2000 elo?

It's not about the destination, but the journey and the people you meet on the way

for sure man!

might take one of my famous "long breaks" now... it used to work and I hope it still will. 🤞

I know that feeling, I took me like 2 years to get past the 1600 mark

maybe try a browser extension that hides in-game elo, I also put too much weight on rating it's a habit I'd like to get out of but its hard.

how do you activate it

cool ty

yeah ik gotham uses a chrom extension to hide opponents and their elo...not sure what it is...but my problem is being to fixated on my own elo...I'm not worried about the elo of others

yeah same tbh

I'm trying to start playing classical so hoping that will help with that

I'm hoping to join local tourneys back home here!

Focus less on the elo number and more on cultivating the chess skills. There are things you know for a fact you can do to improve as a player... you probably don't know your openings out to 12 moves in all the different lines... you probably haven't studied endgames in as much depth as you could have... there are probably things about pawn structures and transformations in the middlegame you can learn... so just keep consistently doing those things. It isn't easy reaching 2000, it's a nice sounding number but you're in like the top 0.2% of chess players on this site at that point... you're competing directly against other humans, you can't expect it to be easy, humans are resourceful.

I think just quit forever is the right call here Omar. Definitely don't follow my advice about watching older games between Masters, keep watching Danya flagging people, that should help improve your understanding. Half joking.

ahh mr 2200 nice to see you in the chat 😊

Easy solution. It starts with 'L' but I am not sure it will not get me banned. 😉