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Same

When I dropped from about 1300 to 900 when I got into chess

Damn, from your rating role, it seems like you didn't recover.

To be completely fair I had a hiatus, and keeping in mind afaik 1200 is the highest starting role, it's no wonder my lack of expertise brought me down and entirely possible I got overrated players who were easy for me when I started

You can get a starting elo of 1600 if you select advanced.

How can i set that rating role?

Nvm found it👍

I just stop playing if I keep losing or making blunders. I have like 2 - 3 good chess days in a week :D

Same. I climb to about 750 in 1-2 days, think that I’m getting better, then fall back to ~640 for a week.

stuck at 500 for months I make zero progress

Had that too but for early 600, then grew to 850 in a single week. Keep practicing, if you can play against players stronger than you. That helped me grow immensely.

Wouldn't worry. I went from 1086 to 963 after an enormous tilt. Sometimes you just have to stop playing and accept that you're not playing well and that mentally you're not right. Whilst it's intoxicating to just "play one more game"... when you're tilting you drop Elo like crazy. Play 1 or 2 games after doing some training. If you're still shit after that just give up and do something else. Your ratings will thank you for it

Feel you 🫡

I have learnt to take short breaks, if I am on a losing streak and am getting tilted.

I didnt win a game in 10 games(lose/draw)

Once went 14 without a win. Loss, draw, then 12 losses in a row.

When I played the bongcloud because my friends told me to. My elo still hasn't recovered

Try kings gambit tumbleweed variation

Fondled by uncle… woah 😳

What happened to Fondled by Uncle 1?

He's now the fondler of the second one

I think 13 has been my longest so far

12 but also I kept resigning on my own

Well, I kept playing against someone roughly 400 higher rated than me for fun at one point, and I lost about 20 times in a row. Thankfully, I set them all to be unrated games.

It feels like you're losing your mind. Usually, if I lose 4 times in a row I step away from chess for a bit.

Does anyone here top a 12 lose streak? I'll wait. https://preview.redd.it/qm7dpjzjy82b1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=344a2477fd39a04acbcd5f5e8241b5d67fd1e647

r/screenshotsarehard

I like playing on my Laptop and use reddit on my phone, cake boy.

Where do you get those stats? I know chessdotcom shows your winning streak in the full statistics, but haven't seen anything about losses.

Lichess, the best site

Ngl, those are amateur numbers, i am pretty sure mine 15+ but i am not able to find where the losing streak is shown

I started playing a few months ago, having no experiece... I went fom 600, to 350 in a day. :( I just crossed 1050 today though, so i'm improving.

This applies to any ranked online game… after 2 or 3 straight losses, sometimes it is better to just take a break and play another day.

Something like that. 1 min bullets mainly

Probably 8-10 as well

Infinite

9 w/o resigning, 30 or so with resigning

I play with a mate irl and online who's 800 - 900 elo and plays chess at a club, got trophies for chess etc and I've lost 75 times and won once... am 300 elo. Game link here: Check out this #chess game: ThisUsernameIsFalse vs Quicksilver131 - https://www.chess.com/live/game/77889770719

He’s got trophies at 800-900 elo?

Just what I was thinking. Where the hell are there tournaments with trophies which can be won with just 900 elo?

Irl tournaments, he's been playing since he was young and he hasn't been on chess.com for long

Yeah, I get that those are irl tournaments, but l (at least in Spain) I have never seen seen a trophy for such a low-level competition. Probably it's just a difference between countries

Ten in a row

I got from 1100 to 500 elo without winning once

nice

9 or 10, streaks are correlated with my mood. My all time graph looks like a yoyo!

I have yet to win a game against a human or stockfish level 3. I’ve played at least, say 50 games or so lol

Damn came back 2 months later and nothing changed. I’ve been there too many times

6 in bullet :(

At the very beginning, when I started playing again after almost 30 years, it was around 50. Now streaks are max 5-6 games

Painful

Bro these are rookie numbers

Nice of you to think I have ever won

Not very sure, one time i went from 1200 to 950 :(

5 lose streak. I thought mine was pretty bad but it's one of the lowest compared to the others here 💀

I want to play a game

Probably like 4-6

9

About 50... of course I was playing against stockfish at the time.

Life

Probably when i started, longest was 5

14 lol

6, but a mixture of 4 rapid games a daily and a bullet

7 but 6 of them were draws so not losses…still some felt that way, I don‘t play online.

8

Not a losing streak but I once dropped from 2170 to under 1900 in bullet in several days

Your problem is you only reviewed 1 of your games. I hope you put the rest into lichess

Idk, but it is definitely from one of my 3 am 1 min bullet sessions.

I remember losing 10 or so games in a row to go from 350 to 250 back in 2021.

From 2003 to 2023

Im currently in its, and its at 9. One more I think magnus carleson shows up at my door to beat me with a golf club

21 years 9months

Bro I haven't won a game 💀

I'll tell you when I win my first game

Right now, as soon as you join chess.com, you won’t win for easily 10 + games

I have played 758 games so far, so let’s see…..758

I went from 1000 elo to 712

Idk the exact amount of losses, or how many consecutive but a week or two ago I went from 1730 to I think as low as like 1490 in the span of 2 days

76

12 or so it was a really bad day

23. But brand new to chess, so I dropped from 800 to 300 real quick and then I finally started to learn more

5. And then 5 wins in a row came after.

Complete losses ( not counting draws): 7. Losses and draws in total : 10 ( I tend not to count draws as a loss though, but I guess thats something that changes with perspective).

Lol don’t do this, I used to, but tilt absolutely exists and the more you tilt the more you lose. I’ll usually not play more than 3 games in a row, but if I play more it’s only because I’m winning, if I start losing I’ll stop and pick it back up another day. Except blitz cuz fuck my blitz rating lol

32 games. dropped from 870 to ~500

Like 5

holy fuck that guy played with a %90 accuracy

48, playing blitz games against my cousin who is much better than me.

15maybe

i’ve dropped from about 1000 to around 880 before. I’m back up to 1100 tho

The top one hits hard.....seems like time doesn't solve all your problems.

In a row, worse streak was 12 losses. However, during a 2 week period I went from high 2000+ in blitz to 1700 and that stung

Idk like 7 or smth

I hope you review each one of those games slowly.

What its like being filipino

It seems like a list of people Fondled by Uncle.. 😂

I think about 20 games but i was always pretty hammered when i logged in to play 😅

21 years, but in chess probably a few games.

happens and it feels like there's nothing left in life, but you know what nevergiveup.gif

Bro hasn’t won a game in 3 months

well, on lichess it shows me a losing streak of 8 and a winning streak of 17. On [chess.com](https://chess.com) i had a winning streak at the start, as i probably clicked the wrong option for the initial rating. ​ [https://lichess.org/@/trixicat/perf/blitz](https://lichess.org/@/trixicat/perf/blitz)

idk like 5 or 6

30 years... Oh, you meant chess?

Is there a way to check without manually going back through my archives?

7 in 290 correspondence games since December 2020.

I'll tell you when it ends!

2. _.

48 :(

I got super high and my brain decided it would have been a great idea to play chess. I went from 760 to 615ish.

8

3

48 in lichess bullet

Last week I dropped from 930 to 850. 10 games lost in a row I think

32

11

I’ve lost 4 out of the last 6 and lost 6 in a row before that

I'll let you know when it flips.

7. I have a fairly balanced W/L ratio of 56/58 (not that many games, but still)

People win games?

5 i think

I lost my way from 900 to 300

5-6 I think. But I've had 8-11 winless streak.

6 games No idea how you guys keep playing when on such massive losing streaks.

1600 to 1300 in a single day

Was on a business trip for a couple of weeks and went down from 600-500

3 years of daily match

I think 14

I think one time I lost around 200 elo in a single sitting. Deleted chess from phone and didn't play for a week or so

From 800 to 500 elo in one day.