Stuck at 1100

Stuck at 1100 odd. Keep getting to 1193 and then tilting. Very frustrated. Has anyone had a similar experience? How did you break through? Btw, I'm close to 2400 in puzzles. So feel it's not tactics holding me back. Some of it may be psychological. In fact, probably mostly.

Has happened to me before a ton of times. It happened when I was 700 and dropped back to 600, when I was 900 and went to 800, when I was 1000 and went to 900, was at 1270 and went to 1170 and was at 1370 and dropped to 1270. But the strategy I always use now is that I just play a lot of games and watch a lot of YouTube videos. Overtime I got better at seeing positional strategies and advanced tatctics with YouTube videos but also applying them into my games. I also try to explain my moves each move and check if I’m blundering a piece or any tactics. Although sometimes there are some tactics that are very hard for me to see and I get checkmates or smth, but I think that the main problem 1100 level players have is that they make simple mistakes like hanging pieces or falling into a 1 move tactic. That’s why I think you should play some tactical opening if your playing style is tactical, and try to threaten tactics that aren’t obvious but that you can see and your opponent cant cuz they’re gonna blunder it.

Every 10 played games you add 1 elo.

So to add another 100 points, you need to play at least 1000 new games.

Takes time.

Learn the single most important chess rule: Place your pieces at the center of the board.

Once you learn that and keep to it, you will magically add another 500 points.

So just every piece you grab, you place in the center.

All traffic goes through the center, but we often forget about that.

Place your pieces in the center of the board.

Every single time.

That adds you 500 strategic points.

A thousand games?? I've only played 700 so far and have gone up 400 elo points. So seems doubtful I need to play that many.

I have recently switched up my openings with white. Now going for the scotch rather than London.

I'm probably just rubbish at chess tbh.

no you will become a general manager one day if you dont give up

General manager? Wow! I should deffo give up then...

The higher you climb, the more games you need to play to get better.

It gets harder.

So 10 games per elo point might be about accurate.

You started low.

Unsure yet. I'm just under that and taking a bit of a break before I attempt to push to 1200. I'm like 2-3 games away. Hope I don't have same experience but that happened to me at 1000, I think because people fight hard to maintain round numbers like 1000 or 1500 or 2000.

then ur a slow rating gainer. On the good side, if you play another like 10000 games, you would easily become 3000+. It's not so hard. (after all, someone played more)

as a 1100 its like 3-4 games you get +8 rating but sometimes i go on big tilts or winning streaks

Looked at your last games and saw that you played 30 minute games but you blitzed out your moves. I think you need to use your time better to calculate moves rather than just playing moves and hoping they are not bad in a situation where you have lots of time

You may be right. I often lose games while playing lazily and not properly calculating.

Also, I'm trying to play daily. But was not in a particularly enthusiastic mood to play today and was pretty tired so almost certainly not playing as well.

I'm trying to be strict with myself and play as often as possible. However, maybe I should play less?

Checked your last game, me only being humble 1700 but still... I think your problem is that you ignore opponents pieces and just play your own thing. Then you get surprised by a simple very predictable counter and you either have to retreat or you're going straight into losing position. In a 30 minutes rapid game that shouldn't happen. Also, there's much more to the game then puzzles. Puzzles are overrated. Sometimes they help you to deliver or prevent some fancy mate, which happens, but not really that often. You have to reach the proper set up first and get a winning position to work from to make any use of your puzzle skills.
And a million other things...

The last game I won. Can you explain a bit more about how I ignored the opponents threats etc?