Popping in here for a guest feature (it happens now and again! #892470).
I've had a rough time with the play, which, in turn, reflects a rough time in life: stress, career, money, head not in the game (literally), psych, physical, existential fucking angst about bitcoin not doing its thing #908702) etc... all the thing that actually goes into performing well in chess that most people don't think about.
Alas, 78 days after my very odd, very premature peak, I'm at least back in the 1500s. Feels good, man!
I've made this reflection before (#853488) but this is the stat that most baffles me:
the win-loss ratio stays remarkably stable for me across 7 days, 30 days, or 90 days. It's like that is my skill relative to others my level... consistently.
It all turns on single-digit percentages; I won 33 more games than I lost.. and plenty of those could have gone any other way (low on time, got lucky with a premove, someone disconnect when I'm losing etc). This quote, from David Copperfield, should resonate for the rest of life too:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
Such a small difference, and it makes a world of difference.
Bad news: as history shows... every time we get up to these vertiguous highs, we crash back down violently. I'm not looking forward to that over the next few weeks.
Nice too, that the game that put me to 1500 was against a much higher rated dude
...I was annoyed, too, earlier in the day when I lost to a 1550 from a position of -5 (i.e., totally winning for me).
(Also: 1958 games for an average of 25 games a day means, holy smokes I don't have a life)
PEACE OUT, SPORT STACKERS!