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Is beating easy players bad? My chess skills are getting rusty

I went to a another chess game (Facebook) and versed a lot of people, and ended up winning all of them because they were generally all easy that I started to not even calculated my moves and be positional and tactical.

Now I just played a few games in lichess, my skills are really getting rusty, and are not as good as it was (Used to have very low inaccuracies and mistakes). This really concerns me because I can hardly calculate my moves which makes me blunder, can't visualize my moves too. Yes I play 15+15 time so I can think through my moves effectively and not make any blunders but this time I really couldn't.
1000 elo saying "I started to not even calculated my moves and be positional and tactical" ...

Hahahahahahahahahaha
looking at your ELO, I think it is fine... xD
Everyone has good and bad (chess) days. I don't think it's bad to play easy opponents, but if you want to improve your game there are better ways to do so.
Lichess says I'm better than 92% of the website and I still don't say to myself "I play positional" or "I play tactical", I just try to find good moves and pray for the best. I don't think amateur players have "style" like the professional players. I mean, this is sad, because we all want to play with some style, but the thing is, we are just very bad players and style means nothing to us.

This illusion about someone having a style of play is created by bad moves from our opponets. For example, you just play agressively (at least you supposed you did), and your opponnent doesn't see the weakness of your position, then he make a bad move, and then you win, thinking that was because you were "agressive". This is false, you just played a bad move, your opponent played an even worse move, and that's it, you are just trying to see who is "less worse" among the two of you.

This is some tough reality, but it is necessary if we want to improve. We all have illusions. I have my illusions too, but if you want to improve, you have to remove then. It is always something tough to do. To be honest, sometimes I feel real pain when I see how bad I am. But someone needs to be willing to contemplate the abyss, the void of your own mistakes, if they are willing to improve.

You are as good as your highest rated "Victim" well close

Just saying but you should play above your rating
Beating easy players makes them stronger because they fight hard to survive. It also makes you weaker because the game gets easy, you relax and forget stuff. Therefore, it becomes much harder to beat stronger opponents.

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