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Drew posted an update
My problem right now is I have these spurts where I play pretty good getting 80%+ accuracy most games, seeing the board very well, and finding great moves. Then all the sudden after a week or so,my brain turns to mush and I start blundering a lot and missing easy to find moves and I’ll start having games where I am 50%+ accuracy or even less. I don’t know why this happens, but I just end up taking a couple weeks off to reset and the cyclestarts over :/
Marc-André D and Andrew6 Comments-
That’s why I was wondering about going “stale ” & advice on what to do !!
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I’m pretty sure it happens to most people under 1500. If you feel tilted, go do some puzzles or play some bots to get back in the zone. Taking 1-2 days off to “reset” might be a good thing but I don’t think you can get better at anything by taking weeks off. Keep going at it !
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@deroqc89gmail-com by taking a couple weeks off…I stop playing games but I still study/watch videos and do tactics puzzles (my tactics rating also drops too). Then once I feel I’ve got my mind right again, I jump back into games.
For example, I play against a friend who’s 1600+ and I can win 1/5 games, often never blundering or mistakes. Then I’ll go play random people in 10min games and I struggle to beat 900s. It is very frustrating.1 -
Did you try 30min games ? 10 min is pretty short if you’re trying to develop a new thinking process. Maybe it’s just a “me” thing though, I just cannot play shorter games without playing like a 600 xD
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I definitely feel like a 600 some days :/ it’s hard with my work schedule to get longer games in, but I might bump it up and try some 15l10 games.
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@drewfenton19gmail-com good idea , if you are able
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