Okay, so I play mostly Bullet games. It's not very good for getting better at chess, I know, but I just find it fun. Now, I've had a rating of around 1300 since last year. At one point I managed to reach 1406, but then I dropped back down to the 1300s.
Then the last few weeks I've gone from 1300 to a personal best of 1502 - which is great of course, but I can't really see why I suddenly been able to make such a progress. I haven't done anything different that I know of, haven't studied or anything, I just suddenly gained like 200 in rating seemingly with no reason?
How do you explain something like that? I mean, I don't think I'm suddenly that much "better". Luck? Flow? Being unusually focused/relaxed/whatever mentally? What do you think?
Then the last few weeks I've gone from 1300 to a personal best of 1502 - which is great of course, but I can't really see why I suddenly been able to make such a progress. I haven't done anything different that I know of, haven't studied or anything, I just suddenly gained like 200 in rating seemingly with no reason?
How do you explain something like that? I mean, I don't think I'm suddenly that much "better". Luck? Flow? Being unusually focused/relaxed/whatever mentally? What do you think?