

#TILT TO LIVE HOW TO#
Hope this gives you a good understanding of how to untilt! If you are tilting right now, try any of these tips and you should be fine! Your opponent could play on, but it is still a try that can work out if your opponent feels the same way. If you feel nauseous or shake uncontrollably, try to offer a draw and see if your opponent will want to play on. Offer/Accept draws if you feel like you are going to explode on the inside. It also helps to stay warm, or even hot! This will make your body sweat, which will actually make you concentrate more on your game. It is not healthy to snack on something while playing, but it could put some of your muscles' tension into eating instead.Ģ. Personally, I found it extremely difficult to stay calm too, but here are a few ways to calm yourself while trying to untilt.ġ. Might seem obvious at first, but staying calm when trying to get your rating back is really hard. But if you don't have the time, then don't play during that time and find another time. So playing 3 games in a row or more against lower strength players is a good idea.

Sometimes (usually) you lose your first game, but win the second as you start to be accustomed to whatever time control you are tilting at. Playing consecutive games at a time is a very good strategy to recover rating from lower strength players as you need to get into form. Most players don't know the science behind it, but it is true! You might not feel fully awake, but you are already higher up on the strength bar, and being stronger than your opponents, and feeling calm is when you are most likely to win games. Playing during the morning is when your mind is at its calmest. Here are 3 tips on how to untilt after you have tilted. So I technically went on tilt twice, but only one of them was a long-term tilt. See the difference? The curve shows your highest rating for a day, while making sure the graph of your rating is (somewhat) smooth. Because in reality this is what happened: (Ad time!) I've ran this club for 4 straight days, which was when my most severe tilt happened. I blog and run clubs, but you can do something else too. You don't need to take long, but you need to do something. Just try to focus on chess as the broad topic. You can do tactics, blog, run clubs, or simply socialize with others. There are a lot of things you can do on or simply at home. Do something else chess-related but NOT playing more games If you don't have a membership you can still self-analyse and see where you went wrong. If you have a membership you can get unlimited analysis (unless I'm wrong because I have no idea I've always been diamond ). If your accuracy is lower than 20 for players rated 800-1000, lower than 30 for players rated 1000-1400, lower than 40 for players rated 1400-1600, lower than 50 for players rated 1600-2000 or lower than 60 for player 2000+ and you continue to lose, stop playing immediately. It may seem obvious at first that you should analyse your games, but some players simply don't do this. I play consistently but I also remember to take breaks from time to time. This is because not playing frequently will have the same result as playing while in a bad mood, deteriorate your chess skills. Sure, you should stop for 2 or 3 hours of playing once you start tilting, but never stop for more than 3 days. That is one BIG counterintuitive way of stopping tilt, but it is true. Here are 3 tips to halt your tilt before it gets too late, and you lose 200 or 300 rating points. So here are some ideas and a whole process for getting rid of tilt! I went on tilt quite recently (see my thumbnail) but was able to recover using this strategy. This is the main type of tilt I will focus on, because 1-day, 2-day tilts aren't too bad compared to 1 or 2 month tilts (or even longer!) Some players (most) are unable to win their rating back in the short-term, which is why some players tilt for long periods of time. You will still find some time later and try to win it back. The problem is, your rating doesn't magically redeem itself. When this happens, all players (at some point) will stop playing for some time. Now you want to win 2 games! Most people are able to cut the loss and win one game at this point, but you may not be in the zone and you might lose 3, 4 or more games. Don't you want to get your rating back? So you play another game and you lose again. Many of you hate tilting, which means losing consecutive games in a row trying to recover previous losses. Hello everyone! I haven't done a blog post without a video in a long time, so this may be how you like me to blog!
