The Great Rollercoaster of Chess Elo On Chess.com-Juann Abraham

Juann Abraham-I started playing chess when I was 8 but I became serious when I was 10 and started watching GothamChess. At that point life was good. I loved to learn more chess and games were easy. I went from 600 ELO to 1300 ELO in within a year. The videos were so helpful and I was able to beat my friends in school. I thought I was Magnus Carlsen in the making. Oh, how wrong I was. At about 1350 I fell down to 1200 in a couple of weeks. I was stunned and didn't what to do! I decided to try learning more. I watched more videos, I became more serious about reading chess books. Fortunately, for me, my rating went up and over 3 years and MANY MANY hiccups I was able to get to 1600 ELO. Every win made me elated and joyous for the entire day! However, every loss brought me down to a new low. It was the worst and best part of my life. THE WORST ELO DROP was when I trying to break 1800 ELO. It took me a year to go from 1795-1800. I played at least one game every day and literally my elo went UP then DOwn then UP then DOWN. Over and over and over again... As you can probably tell by now I WAS GOING INSANE. When I finally broke the vicious number I learned something that EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEARN. I gave up on the number. That's right. I completely left the idea of making it past. While this seems counter-intuitive, I decided to keep learning more chess and read more books and go to more over the board tournaments (which btw is 1400 rn I know I suck at OTB). Eventually, on that fateful friday in April I broke the score but I didn't celebrate, Why would I? My number went up but that didn't matter as much as me learning more chess and THAT'S what I was proud of! I'm definitely going to face much more rollercoasters in my chess journey but I think I have some more of the wisdom to make it! I hope someone learned what took me 1 year to understand, Bye!- Juann Abraham on June 27th 2025