Comradeship // Freechat

I'm 1500 in chess. I know the exact feeling.

Best advice I can give you to mitigate it, is to just stop playing for the day. You might have noticed that some days you play better than other days. If you are on a bad day then dont play. Also you are at your sharpest at the beginning of a session, so if you start out well then start getting a losing streak, just stop playing, rather than extending your negative streak.

At any rate, chess ELO is just there to match you with opponents of your level. It doesn't mean much else, beyond a quantitative measure of your skill.

If you want to get better then:

1. Learn tactics, such as forking, pinning, etc.

2. Learn openings to get a better grip on positioning(!) Don't fall in the trap of memorizing moves. Understand why a move is being played, what it does and what it leads to. This will help you build more solid positions in your games. Some squares are better than other squares, and this changes game by game. Openings can teach you to recognize quickly what is the best decision in most situations.

3. Do puzzles! Puzzles teach you both tactics (1) and pattern recognition (2).

4. Stop playing on chess.com. Go to lichess instead. Chess.com is horrid for new players. Its elo system tends to be too oppressive, its learning tools are paywalled (3 free puzzles per day and limited reviews based on a free open-source engine is ridiculous), and in the lower ranks it is filled with cheaters and smurfs. Lichess is a much better experience overall and there's no paywalls. Most importantly for you, it offers unlimited free puzzles, separated into categories with ratings for each category, so you know what to improve on.

5. Learn from the best. See what grandmasters are advising. If chess books aren't your thing then follow someone's youtube channel. Some are better than others. Find someone who explains things so you understand them, rather than someone who just assumes you already know what they are saying. I highly recommend Ben Finegold for this!