Originally Posted by TheCutlery
There's no point in playing more than 10 games a week for points because today might be the day you lose 100 rating in an hour and ruin the last 2 weeks of work.
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This is your problem. You shouldn't see rating gain/loss as progress, the more you play and the more that 100 rating you lost one afternoon becomes meaningless, because in all of the games after that you got more points/lost less points than what you would have previously. The way the elo system works is that you tend to go back to your "true" rating after enough games. If you win 10 games in a row or lose 3 games and then win 7 often times the result is exactly the same, you will end up at the same rating because the 7 wins will net you more points.
What you should be working on is actually improving your game. And the best way to do that is actually by losing games, analyzing your mistakes, finding solutions, trying them. Sometimes you are simply outmatched or outcomped, but you can still come up with things that will at least improve your odds.