Massive losing streaks

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piedraven
bharathkrish wrote:
I have lost over 300 ELO in a month. “Improvement” is a myth. You will never improve at this game. It’s just a series of playing poor schmucks who don’t know what their doing (leading to your rating getting inflated) followed by playing a series of semi-competent people and cheaters who beat you and make your rating plummet.

Dude, easy. You're pissed off and you're playing with your adrenals instead of your brain. I did the exact same thing a few days ago and lost about 120 ELO points. I waited until I was rested and was in a reasonably good mood and won those points back. Take a break, come back to chess later and try again.

ahlihk

I was a 1100 not too long ago, and was winning almost all my games, now, im losing almost all of them and im a 1040. I even drew with a 985 and lost to somebody playing the grob.

Jalex13
Boohoo, you lost 60 points.
ahlihk

I know but im still on the losing streak, im down to 1024

Sea_TurtIe

understandable

sometimes i have outstanding games where i played wayyy over my oppoments level

then there are times where i simply lose to some woodpusher

piedraven
Sea_TurtIe wrote:

understandable

sometimes i have outstanding games where i played wayyy over my oppoments level

then there are times where i simply lose to some woodpusher

I thought I was the only one until recently. Never ceases to amaze me how sometimes I can beat people way higher than me and sometimes I just get the blunders and I lose to people who would otherwise be 200 elo down.

s-dshubin

Everyone has ups and downs but, and I know this is cliche, if you keep trying, eventually you will see an improvement... If you keep practicing tactically, and learning from your mistakes you can make your losses as a tool to grow 200+ points back.

(I guess this is where I say check my profile and email me if you are interested in coaching happy.png) Whether it be with me or someone else, you will be able to grow more with a coach, or at the very least, online tools, who will be able to point out your mistakes to you and tell you how to improve

EscherehcsE
bharathkrish wrote:
I couldn’t win a game if my life depended on it right now. It’s pretty pathetic

Look at the bright side - You'll have all of the game offers that you want...

heythreej
You know how on Forza Horizon you’ll race against drivatars and it says “you are winning too many races, want to increase the difficult for more XP”? I feel like when you get a streak going or win a majority of your games in a sitting or within a few days, it switches your opponents to one’s who can better defend your play.
heythreej
I went from 1090s down to 930s and while it’s only 20+ games, it’s bs moves of them figuring everything out and getting me mated by 2 rooks etc. throwing away their queen and all.
ChessMasteryOfficial

I can teach you EXACTLY how to think during the game (opening, middlegame and endgame). Your chess understanding will never be the same and you will improve a lot. I charge €35/h (€22/h if you pay for two lessons in advance), but if you can’t afford too many lessons, don’t worry. I can teach you a lot in an hour. Here to help if you are interested.

If you want to study by yourself, read ‘Logical Chess’. It is really instructive book. You have it on youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eTB7oHeRgM&list=PLUrgfsyInqNa1S4i8DsGJwzx1Uhn2AqlT

d_arcana

Its because many of the players are bots, and when your rating increases too fast they hit you with lots of bots that attack known weaknesses from your past games. I think they think it will make you better but it just makes you mad.

Fetoxo
When i lose then i stop playing. When i win i continue playing. This stopped me from having such a long losinf streaj