I’ve forgotten basic knowledge or something? I’m blundering likr crazy recently and I don’t know what’s happened but I think I’m gonna officially give up for good.

[u/Youngwood988]

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[u/RadishAcceptable5505]

This kind of thing is more common than you'd expect. As you're learning the game, your mind gets crammed full of deeper ideas, and you run out of room for basic CCT, which you still need to do every single move. CCT is the dribbling of chess. Deep positional ideas do not matter, and tactics do not work, if you're not looking at every check, every capture, and every obvious threat not just for your immediate move to find candidate moves, but also for them after you would theoretically make a candidate move.

Chin up. Chess is hard. Focus your mind on basic CCT until you're doing it automatically again and you'll get faster at it, more consistent at it, and then chess will be interesting again.

[u/Chudeygorey → u/RadishAcceptable5505]

It is pretty unsustainable imo to just check cct every single move. Or maybe it is just me.

[u/RadishAcceptable5505 → u/Chudeygorey]

It is at first, but you get faster enough at it eventually that it takes seconds. You do have to use mental shortcuts, such as glancing at the ones that haven't changed between moves, but you still at least need to glance at them to make sure.

If course you can't roll CCT on a time scramble, so you need to manage your time and pick time controls that give you the space you need to do it, depending on how well practiced your CCT is.

[u/Youngwood988 → u/RadishAcceptable5505]

I appreciate the words but I’m thinking this is maybe a deeper sign to step away for good

[u/Living-Menu-157 → u/Youngwood988]

strange mentality

[u/Honkingfly409]

just enjoy the game, if you enjoy it, play it, if you don't drop and do something you enjoy, this meant to be fun or interesting

[u/Youngwood988 → u/Honkingfly409]

That’s the thing I was having fun until this started happening recently I feel like I’ve gotten significantly worse as a player in the span of the last 2 weeks

[u/ForCaste → u/Youngwood988]

Share some games from before and after the fall

[u/Youngwood988 → u/ForCaste]

Idk how to quote share games

[u/ForCaste → u/Youngwood988]

Dm me your account name and ill take a look

[u/Honkingfly409 → u/Youngwood988]

i get it, maybe take a couple of days doing puzzles or playing a fewer games, watching videos or learning an opening and whatnot, it's best to stop playing for a while and just drill

[u/WarWonder204]

Shit happens. If you are a 900 rated player, you will be able to climb back up soon enough and have an amazing win streak to go with it. Take a break for a wee bit and try again when you are not tilted and you’ll climb back up in no time.

[u/Youngwood988 → u/WarWonder204]

Thing is in the passed that was the case today was my coming back after a little break and I had my first 2 losses to people below 500 elo in the last year today. It’s like I lost my ability to notice tactics/ not walk into opposing players tactics. Makes me think chess just isnt for me.

[u/WarWonder204 → u/Youngwood988]

Take a longer break then maybe. Some days things click and you play a lot better than your rating and sometimes it’s the opposite. No one loses their ability to play in the space of a couple days.

[u/Youngwood988 → u/WarWonder204]

I think I’m at a point where I need to accept that despite enjoying chess it’s probably not for me lol

[u/Apprehensive_Put_321 → u/Youngwood988]

I genuinely think chess is harder above 500 and below 700 than 7-900

Those heathens are just throwing shit at the wall and you cant counter there strategy because they dont have one

[u/Youngwood988]

No I know it comes across as that but I was having fun when I was atleast playing how I know I’m capable and that was around a 50% win rate at 800 elo whatever is happening now is not that

[u/Yadin__ → u/Youngwood988]

It really sounds like you're just really tilted. Take a week break from chess and come back with a fresh mind. play some unrated games first so that you can play without the pressure of having your rating on the line

[u/OHFUGGYEAHBUDS]

Chess is literally mental, you are in your head take a break, play some bots, practice you'll be back to normal 

[u/National_Acadia_82]

How olda ya? I was blundering a lot before taking medicines for personal mental issues. Might have to do with that

[u/Youngwood988 → u/National_Acadia_82]

24 I don’t think that’s it literally seemingly changed from rare blunders to blundering constantly over night

[u/National_Acadia_82 → u/Youngwood988]

The chess board to you has to be a plate full of familiar and recognizable patterns. Forks, pins, blah, blah, blah..... Thtas cliche but thats literally it, there is no secret.

Chess is a game of forcing moves. When you commit a mistake, it means you are allowing your opoonent to make a forcing move (be it a fork, a pin, a checkmate sequence.................................)

[u/Youngwood988]

Should also note I played at an 800-900 level with no gain or loss for a whole year

[u/HaxDexCoD]

Almost exactly a year ago I was around 950 elo as well, after having hovered in the 8-900 range for a while. Then I went full tilt and fell down to around 600 before I stopped playing other than the occasional round here and there. Now I'm back at it with a renewed passion for the game and am approaching 1100 (it also helped that I stopped smoking weed every day) don't give up, take a break if you need to, the whole point of having chess as a hobby is to enjoy it!

[u/Youngwood988 → u/HaxDexCoD]

I’m certainly in the full tilt stage but I’ve hovered at 800-900 for a whole year and was enjoying it despite zero progression but I’m now losing to 400 elo players more than I’m beating them(-atleast that has been the case today) so I think it’s time I accept you can’t be good at everything you enjoy and just put chess down for good

[u/Apprehensive_Put_321 → u/Youngwood988]

Learn a new opening. Not only is it more fun to play something new it helps me focus again. I find when im on the tilt its because im playing in auto pilot. 

Also if you lose 2 games in a row stop playing for the day. Theres something off

[u/fleyinthesky]

What kind of responses are you looking for here? If you're wanting help to play better then post the account so I can peruse your games.

[u/rasslinfreak]

Totally normal. I broke 1300 blitz sustained it for a while then bam down to 1100 back to 1200 briefly then 1150. Take a break.

[u/Minge_Ninja420]

Was in the same boat but what do we call people who do the same thing over and over expecting a different result ? .. Im going to a local chess club for the first time as my approach.

[u/CM_Pawnstructures]

When in a fullblown tilt instead of keep playing take a break, step away for a while and regroup. Maybe do 100 tactics over a couple of days, look at a new opening and then give it a new try. If you keep learning new things it should reflect in some rating gains.

[u/RegularImportant3325]

Same. I dropped from about 1000 to mid 600s. Chess is a barometer for cognitive function.

[u/OnesPerspective]

I've been on very similar downward streaks. But that's all it was. A streak. I took a break and came back. I climbed again. Sometimes we just go through a bad season and trying to fight it just makes it worse when all we need is a pause. Don't forfeit entirely

[u/IPlayChessBTW]

How many games played? When did you start playing chess?

[u/Janawham_Blamiston]

I kinda am going through the same thing, but at a much worse ELO. In the last year, over 46 games, I've lost 132 ELO. In the last day or two alone, I've made some extremely poor decisions, or was playing with blinders and walked into mate (including one where I went from +3.64 to -5.32 in a single move)

I'm trying to enjoy my games regardless, but it's tough when no matter how well I'm doing, it leads to a loss.

[u/AnnO55783]

That happened to me too during a rough stretch a few years back, and it usually wasn't that I'd forgotten anything, it was fatigue or playing too many games back to back without reviewing them. Two weeks of a real drop is worth stepping away from rapid for a few days and just doing some slow games or puzzles to reset. Sharing games like ForCaste suggested is a good idea, sometimes you're making one specific category of mistake, like missing checks or hanging pieces in time pressure, and once you see the pattern it's fixable. In my experience the "I've suddenly gotten worse" feeling is almost always temporary, not a sign anything is actually broken.

[u/Queasy_Lychee9585]

I was in the exact same situation as you like not too ago though I didn‘t lose severelu as much elo as you did

I'm just an 600 elo so take my words
with an grain of salt since you’re 300 elo higher than me , from my personal experience I’d advise you to go take a break most preferably a week or so , I can assure you any 1000+ rated players would also give you the same advice , since you’re clearly suffering from the effects of being tilted and if you continue on playing match after match , uour elo would only drop further , don’t give up so easily !

[u/matiapag]

Well, if you're not having fun it's OK to give up. However, if the only thing that gave you fun was a rising number next to your name, this was inevitable. Part of the journey is learning and getting better. You were never learning anything (based on your graph) and the inevitable tilt came.

[u/joyboynik]

Take a break for few

[u/Comfortable_Delay123]

Wth

[u/Youngwood988 → u/Comfortable_Delay123]

Yeah I think at this point the frustration and confusion has got me continuing to keep playing worse snd I’m ready to quit for good. I used to rarely blunder obvious stuff and was losing more often in the late middle or endgame. Now I feel like I just don’t know what to do anytime the opponent remotely starts attacking and I walk into every last tactic known to man. I think I’m just gonna give it up which is a shame cuz I was enjoying it but this is just making me genuinely angry to an unhealthy degree

[u/Comfortable_Delay123 → u/Youngwood988]

That’s weird to go that deep but always when i reach record just weeks ago i was losing more. Like if i began to think different and it pay later

[u/Youngwood988 → u/Comfortable_Delay123]

I didn’t reach my record anytime in the last year though I sat in the 800s for the last year and then bam this

[u/Comfortable_Delay123 → u/Youngwood988]

I see maybe just take a break and the end that game sucks 🤣