Ready to quit chess

Your ratings progress has been good. A few ups and downs should not discourage you.

An interesting question, which I think most players across all levels have asked themselves at some point. Making progress and seeing your ELO rating increase is satisfying and conversely, losing games and seeing a drop in rating is disheartening. Tilting is part of this, and after losing 5 or 6 games in a row, we can easily allow ourselves to think that we will never improve. These days, if I recognise that I'm tilting, I try and take a break for a day or two, and come back to the board when I'm likely to play more mindfully.

You don't say in detail what and how you are studying - watching tutorials, analysing your games, doing puzzles etc. If you do want to progress, at some point you will need to study tactics and strategies, and try and understand and learn some different openings.

Also - I find it useful to differentiate between 'process' and 'product'. Chess can simply be an enjoyable pastime, at whatever level - a process which you enjoy. If you want 'product' ie a continually increasing ELO, fair enough. But you may find that whatever ELO number you have achieved, you will then yearn for a higher number, and then a higher number and this may bring more disatisfaction and frustration than enjoyment.

And I completely agree with justbefair "Your ratings progress has been good. A few ups and downs should not discourage you.

maybe just take a break for a few days and come back when you're feeling more positive.

Decent advice #3...can I ask you a question though? Everyone loves to throw out generic advice and one of the ones I constantly see is this idea of explaining away rating drop to "tilt". And I think in 90% of cases the advice is justified. My question...how much rating drop over how long a period and many sessions, will it take for the idea of "tilt" not to be the case or to apply? When do massive long term drops in, not only elo, but quality of your play in general, get recognized for something other than tilt? Example: my blitz rating has now officially dropped below my bullet. This didn't happen in a single "tilt" session. This happened over the last 90 days with many attempts with a fresh mind and giving myself breaks from the previous horrible session. A pattern has emerged...im playing much worse and garbage chess than i was a year ago(across all time formats) and my blitz is now back to a rating I was in nearly 2018(and below my bullet). When someone tries to tell me that it's just "tilt"...its pretty irritating. I analyze all my games, but all the analysis in the world cant stop a person from making the same silly and grade school blunders. I study, I've payed for coaching, I read books, I buy courses....and all my effort....to just get worse, consistently? All the effort makes the regression even more painful. How could anyone enjoy that kind of particular process?

your progress has been steadily upwards trending. It took me about 2 years to reach 2000 (from 1100) in 10 minute and that was generally considered fast. Improvement isn't a sprint, but a marathon.