Help me
That’s too much to handle, I feel like I’m playing like a 500-900 player. I can’t see anything. I’ve lost all my tactical vision and understanding of the game. I just don’t get why I’m falling so bad. These are played in a course of a week, I play a bit everyday and I’ve played for 10 years now.
I’m a relatively good OTB player, defeated ~2000 Elo players with ease at local tournaments consistently. I always had a good understanding and deep knowledge about chess, I have a pretty decent memory and just never really bothered getting too serious online to climb my rating so I always stayed in the 1400-1500 range because it suited well my needs of playing without sweating too hard.
Recently, I went to a tournament, and lost to 1000-1300 chesscom players OTB, and it stunned me. I was winning in every position, and just blundered away my victory. I put that loss on my fatigue because I didn’t get any good sleep, but later on I connect to my account and lose very badly. And over the course of a whole week, I kept losing, over and over, and it’s not like there is anything to analyse, I just do a HUGE blunder that gives a piece away, like an amateur would. I also feel like I can’t play my game anymore, that I understand less the structures of my pawns, that I can’t really put my king to safety, and my calculations are so slow, I sometimes need entire minutes to figure out what will happen after a simple trade of pieces…
I don’t know what to do, I love the game of chess, but it’s my first time in years facing that many losses against people who I could beat pretty easily a couple of weeks before..?
Anybody had a similar situation? Any advice? I don’t want to stop playing but my frustration is at an all time high